2 “The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son.
3 He sent his servants to tell the invited guests to come to the feast, but they did not want to come.
4 So he sent other servants with this message for the guests: ‘My feast is ready now; my steers and prize calves have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!’
5 But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store,
6 while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them.
7 The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.
8 Then he called his servants and said to them, ‘My wedding feast is ready, but the people I invited did not deserve it.