The Great Banquet
Lukas 14:15–24kingdominvitation
A man prepares a great banquet; the invited guests refuse with excuses, and the master fills his table from the streets.
The excuses are absurd because they are real — a field, oxen, a wife. Things that aren't bad become a refusal to come when they outweigh the invitation. The poor, the crippled, the lame — those without excuses — fill the seats. None of those originally invited will taste His banquet.
- Yeshayahu 55:1–3Come, all who are thirsty
- Yeshayahu 25:6A feast of rich food for all peoples