14:16-24 What is Jesus teaching here?

This is called the parable of the great supper. Jesus told it in response to what one of the Pharisees who sat with Him at the meal table said in V15 (cp V15).

Jesus uses the supper as a figure of the future eternal kingdom, and the guests who were invited first as a figure of the Jews. Jesus is illustrating by the parable His future rejection by the Jews, and as a result the kingdom being opened up to the Gentiles.

The servant being sent out to bring in guests for the supper is a figure of the evangelical church. Compel in V23 does not mean to use force, but rather to persuade (cp V23). This typifies sinners being persuaded to partake of the kingdom benefits by evangelical Christians.

This teaching should not only be seen as a rebuke for the Jews, but also as a reminder for contemporary Christians to also "…go out into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in" (hedges here refers to the narrow ways among the vineyards). See also comments on Mt 20:16, 28:19-20(a) and Eph 5:16,

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