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10 The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike,[a] and the hall was filled with guests. 11 [b]But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. 12 He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:10 Bad and good alike: cf. Mt 13:47.
  2. 22:11 A wedding garment: the repentance, change of heart and mind, that is the condition for entrance into the kingdom (Mt 3:2; 4:17) must be continued in a life of good deeds (Mt 7:21–23).