This week we continue in our study of the parables of Jesus with week 7 of our sermon series “The Great Storyteller.”

Read: Matthew 22:1-14

Discuss:

There are countless discussion questions we could extract from this passage, but we can discuss some of the following as time permits.

- Who was Jesus speaking to? And, what do we know about His audience?

- What was the spiritual climate at the time this parable was given?

- Who did the king originally invite?

- Who were the king’s messengers?

- Why were they killed and who killed them?

Read also the passage in Matthew 23:29-34. Note some of the adjectives for the Pharisees.

Compare and contrast Acts 4:10-11.

- Who do the people, the second invitees, symbolize?

- What do the clothes issued by the king for the wearing at the wedding symbolize?

Romans 13:14

Ephesians 2:12-13

Isaiah 61:10

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

- Explain the wedding guest who was not wearing a garment for the occasion?

- What was his fate and why?

- Why and how is all of this an illustration of the Gospel?