Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Matthew 22:10
So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
10. So those servants went out into the highways ] Strictly, into the places where different roads branch off. The “servants” are the earliest Christian missionaries, Paul, Silas, Barnabas and others, who went in their journeys to such meeting-places of the nations at Rome, Antioch and Corinth.
bad and good ] Who will always co-exist in the Church on earth.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Bad and good – All descriptions of people. None are good by nature; if they were they would not need the gospel; but some are worse than others, and they have special need of it. None can be saved without it.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 10. Gathered together all – both bad and good] By the preaching of the Gospel, multitudes of souls are gathered into what is generally termed the visible Church of Christ.
This Church is the FLOOR, where the wheat and the chaff are often mingled, Mt 3:12.
The FIELD, where the bastard wheat and the true grain grow together, Mt 13:26-27.
The NET, which collects of all kinds, both good and bad, Mt 13:48.
The HOUSE in which the wise and foolish are found, Mt 25:1, c.
And the FOLD, in which there are both sheep and goats, Mt 25:33 &c.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
10. So those servants went out intothe highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, bothbad and goodthat is, without making any distinction betweenopen sinners and the morally correct. The Gospel call fetched inJews, Samaritans, and outlying heathen alike. Thus far the parableanswers to that of “the Great Supper” (Lu14:16, &c.). But the distinguishing feature of our parable iswhat follows:
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
So these servants went out into the highways,…. Turned from the Jews, and went among the Gentiles, preaching the Gospel to them; particularly the Apostle Paul, with Barnabas, and others:
and gathered together all, as many as they found, both good and bad: the Persic version reads it, “known or unknown”. The Gospel ministry is the means of gathering souls to Christ, and to attend his ordinances, and into his churches; and of these that are gathered by it into churches, and to an attendance on outward ordinances, some are good and some bad, as the fishes gathered in the net of the Gospel are said to be, in Mt 13:47 which may either express the character of the Gentiles before conversion, some of them being outwardly good in their civil and moral character; closely adhering to the law and light of nature, doing the things of it, and others notoriously wicked; or rather, how they proved when gathered in, some being real believers, godly persons, whose conversations were as became the Gospel of Christ; others hypocrites, empty professors, having a form of godliness, and nothing of the power of it; destitute of grace in their hearts, and of holiness in their lives; and the whole sets forth the diligence of the servants, in executing their master’s orders, with so much readiness and exactness:
and the wedding was furnished with guests; that is, the wedding chamber, or the place where the wedding was kept, and the marriage dinner was prepared, and eat; so the Syriac renders it,
, “the house of the feast”, or where the feast was kept; and so the Ethiopic version: the Persic version reads it, “the house of the nuptial feast”: which designs the house and church of God, into which large numbers of the Gentiles were brought, by the ministry of the apostles; so that it was filled with persons that made a profession of Christ and his Gospel.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The wedding ( ). But Westcott and Hort rightly read here , marriage dining hall. The same word in 9:15 means the bridechamber.
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
Was furnished [] . The Greek is stronger; was filled : so Rev.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
(10) Both bad and good.The words imply, as in the parable of the Drag-net (Mat. 13:47-48), (1) the universality of the offer of the gospel, so that none were shut out through any previous sins; (2) that the assembly of the guests so gathered answers to the visible Church of Christ in which the evil are mingled with the good, waiting for the coming of the King to see the guests.
The wedding was furnished.Some of the most ancient MSS. give the bride-chamber was furnished; but it looks like a gloss or explanatory note.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
10. So these servants went out Unto the Gentile world, going, that is, “into all the world, to preach the Gospel to every creature.” The minister is sent of God. The ministry is a divine institution, sanctioned by Christ, and will last to the judgment day. Both bad and good That is, every sort of character, moral or vicious. Yet the good are not too good to need the Gospel, nor the bad so bad as to have no hope if they will accept it.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.’
And so the servants went out into the highways, and they gathered all whom they found, without distinction, until the wedding was filled with guests. ‘The bad’ probably signifies the public servants and prostitutes (Mat 21:31-32), ‘the good’ the ordinary Jewish people who in contrast lived what were seen as ‘good’ lives. But as the next verse demonstrates, all these invitees were given time to attire themselves suitably for the wedding as best they could. Jesus expects us to assume it from what follows. This was important for it would reveal the genuineness of their appreciation and acceptance of the status of the Son. For as we shall soon discover those who came with the wrong attitude would not be welcome. This should be noted. Those only would be welcomed who had responded to the king’s invitation in the right manner. It was not to be a question of what they had been. It was to be a question of whether they were prepared to reveal their submission to the king’s son, and to honour His presence, something which would be revealed by the way that they presented themselves.
Here was an offer for men of all kind to come into the Kingly Rule of Heaven, as they had with John the Baptist (Mat 21:31-32). But it required response, repentance (compare Isa 1:16-18), a ‘change of clothes’ and the commencement of a new life (compare Zec 3:3-5; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:9-10). They had to be clothed with ‘wedding-garments’. It was that fact that proved that they were genuine responders to His invitation. In Rev 19:8 those are ‘the righteousnesses of the saints (people of God)’ which were the evidence of the true bride.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Mat 22:10 . ] from the palace of the king out into the highways.
] through their invitation, which was accepted.
. .] not “locutio quasi proverbialis,” Bengel, but they proceeded on the principle of not inquiring whether the parties in question were at the time morally bad or good, provided they only accepted the invitation. The separation between the bad and the good was not to be made by them, but subsequently by the king himself, and that according to a higher standard. Accordingly, the separation takes place in Mat 22:11 ff., where the man who has no wedding garment represents the .
] not equivalent to , but the wedding (i.e. the marriage feast , as in Mat 22:8 ; comp. Hom. Od . iv. 3, Il . xviii. 491), was full of guests. The emphasis, however, is on .
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Ver. 10. Both bad and good, &c. ] Such a mixture there ever hath been, and will be here in the Church. Doeg sets his foot as far within the sanctuary as David. There are sacrificing Sodomites, Isa 1:10 , sinners in Sion, Isa 33:14 . We cannot avoid the company of those from whom we shall be sure to carry guilt or grief.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mat 22:10 . : not in the mood to make distinctions. connects . and . together as one company = all they found, of all sorts, bad or good, the market-place swept clean. , was filled; satisfactory after the trouble in getting guests at all. , the marriage dining-hall; in Mat 9:15 the brideshamber.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
went out = having gone out.
bad. Greek. poneros. App-128.
was furnished = became filled.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Mat 22:10. , brought together) partly by calling them as they had been commanded, and partly by employing unjustifiable compulsion.- , both bad and good) A proverbial mode, as it were, of expression.[957]
[957] This is the aspect of the Church in the present day. It was not exactly such instructions as these that the King had given to His servants, Mat 22:9. No one is good before his call: but when the call has been duly accepted, all things are well.-V. g.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
both: Mat 22:11, Mat 22:12, Mat 13:38, Mat 13:47, Mat 13:48, Mat 25:1, Mat 25:2, 1Co 6:9-11, 2Co 12:21, 1Jo 2:19, Rev 2:14, Rev 2:15, Rev 2:20-23
and the: Mat 25:10, Rev 5:9, Rev 7:9, Rev 19:6-9
Reciprocal: Mat 13:30 – both Mat 20:7 – Go Luk 14:13 – call Luk 14:23 – Go Act 18:6 – from Rom 10:20 – I was made Eph 6:9 – knowing Heb 4:6 – some
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Highways means the world in general whereas the first invitation was restricted to the Jews. (chapter 10:5, 6.) Bad and good. Even in the world there is a difference between men both socially and morally. But no man is so bad but the Gospel can purify and redeem him, and no one is so good that he does not need its saving qualities in order to be worthy of attending the wedding feast.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Mat 22:10. And those servants. Including all gospel messengers ever since.
Both bad and good. All kinds of people, without regard to their apparent moral character. The acceptance of the invitation was (and is) the great concern of the kings servants.
And the wedding was filled with guests. The Jews, by their rejection of the gospel, did not frustrate the grace of God. Besides the remarkable fulfilment in the early Christian centuries, there is a reference to the Church as gathered ever since from all parts of the world, of bad and good, and containing some without a wedding garment.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both {c} bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
(c) The general calling offers the gospel to all men: but those who enter in have their life examined.