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Matthew 22 · a question people ask

What is the "wedding clothing" (22:11)?

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Matthew tells of no explanation. The king "saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing" (22:11), and said to him, "Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?" (22:12). "He was speechless" (22:12). The parable doesn't say what the clothing is, where it came from, or why the man had none, and these notes don't either. They identify the man with no one.

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““But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.”
Matthew 22:11-12 · World English Bible

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Matthew 22: A wedding feast for his son

In Matthew, Jesus tells the Sadducees that the words "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" were "spoken to you by God" (22:31-32). Asked for the greatest commandment, he gives two, and says, "The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments" (22:40).

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