Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost; 15 October 2023; Proper 23A (RCL); Exodus 32:1-14; Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23; Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14.
Sigh, another parable by Matthew, that I would as soon see excised from the canon as preached on. But, there it is. This time, Matthew is using Q as his source, rather than Mark. Luke’s version of this parable is very different (see Luke 14:15-24). The subject is just a man, not a king, and he doesn’t send his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city, and there is no one who gets thrown out of the banquet into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (one of Matthew’s favorite phrases).
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