THE PARABLE OF THE WEDDING BANQUET (153 downloads)
Matthew 22:1-22
Key Verse 22:2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.”
- How is the kingdom of heaven like a wedding banquet? (Revelation 19:9)
- Why did the king repeatedly invite the guests to come? Why did the guests repeatedly refuse the invitation and even kill the king’s servants? (3-6) What was the consequence of their refusal? (7)
- Why did the king open the banquet to anyone willing to come? What kinds of people came to the banquet? (8-10)
- Why was the king offended by the man who was not wearing wedding clothes? What do wedding clothes symbolize? (Isaiah 61:10, Zechariah 3:3-4) What does verse 14 mean?
- How did the Pharisees and the Herodians try to trap Jesus in his words? (15-17) What does Jesus mean by “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s”? (21)