Matthew 22:14

The Darby Translation

For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

King James Version (1611)
For many are called, but few are chosen.

King James Version
For many are called, but few are chosen.

English Standard Version
For many are called, but few are chosen."

New American Standard Bible
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

New Century Version
"Yes, many are invited, but only a few are chosen."

Amplified Bible
"For many are called (invited, summoned), but few are chosen."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

Legacy Standard Bible
For many are called, but few are chosen."

Berean Standard Bible
For many are called, but few are chosen."

Contemporary English Version
Many are invited, but only a few are chosen.

Complete Jewish Bible
for many are invited, but few are chosen."

Easy-to-Read Version
"Yes, many people are invited. But only a few are chosen."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For many are called, but fewe chosen.

George Lamsa Translation
For many are invited, and few are chosen.

Good News Translation
And Jesus concluded, "Many are invited, but few are chosen."

Lexham English Bible
For many are called but few are chosen."

Literal Translation
For many are called, but few chosen.

American Standard Version
For many are called, but few chosen.

Bible in Basic English
For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.

Hebrew Names Version
For many are called, but few chosen."

International Standard Version
For many are invited, but few are chosen."Matthew 20:16;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For many are the called, but few the chosen.

Murdock Translation
For the called are many, and the chosen are few.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For many be called, but fewe are chosen.

English Revised Version
For many are called, but few chosen.

World English Bible
For many are called, but few chosen."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For many are called, but few chosen.

Weymouth's New Testament
"For there are many called, but few chosen."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For many ben clepid, but fewe ben chosun.

Update Bible Version
For many are called, but few chosen.

Webster's Bible Translation
For many are called, but few [are] chosen.

New English Translation
For many are called, but few are chosen."

New King James Version
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

New Living Translation
"For many are called, but few are chosen."

New Life Bible
For many are called but few are chosen."

New Revised Standard
For many are called, but few are chosen."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, many, are called, but, few, chosen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For many are called, but few are chosen.

Revised Standard Version
For many are called, but few are chosen."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For many are called and feawe be chosen.

Young's Literal Translation
for many are called, and few chosen.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For many be called, but few are chose.

Mace New Testament (1729)
thus many are called, but few are converted.

THE MESSAGE
"That's what I mean when I say, ‘Many get invited; only a few make it.'"

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Many will be invited, but only a few will come."

Contextual Overview

¹ And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying, ² The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son, ³ and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast. ⁵ But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce. ⁶ And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew [them]. ⁷ And [when] the king [heard of it he] was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸ Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy; ⁹ go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast. ¹⁰ And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, Matthew 20:16, Luke 13:23, Luke 13:24

Reciprocal: Esther 2:4 - let the maiden

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together.

Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.

Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.

Genesis 22:17
I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name of that city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel—For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved.

Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For many are called, but few chosen. See Gill "Mt 20:16"

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many are called, but few are chosen - Our Saviour often uses this expression. It was probably proverbial. The Jews had been called, but few of them had been chosen to life. The great mass of the nation was wicked, and they showed by their lives that they were not chosen to salvation. The Gentiles also were invited to be saved, Isaiah 45:22. Nation after nation has been called; but few, few have yet showed that they were real Christians, the elect of God. It is also true that many who are in the church may prove to be without the wedding garment, and show at last that they were not the chosen of God. This remark in the 14th verse is the inference from the “whole parable,” and not of the part about the man without the wedding garment. It does not mean, therefore, that the great mass in the church are simply called and not chosen, or are hypocrites; but the great mass in “the human family,” in the time of Christ, who had been “called,” had rejected the mercy of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 22:14. Many are called, c.] This verse is wanting in one of Colbert's MSS., marked 33 in Griesbach. See the note on Matthew 20:16. Many are called by the preaching of the Gospel into the outward communion of the Church of Christ but few, comparatively, are chosen to dwell with God In glory, because they do not come to the master of the feast for a marriage garment-for that holiness without which none can see the Lord. This is an allusion to the Roman custom of raising their militia; all were mustered, but only those were chosen to serve, who were found proper. See the note on Matthew 20:16. Reader! examine thy soul, and make sure work for eternity!