Matthew 22:14

Good News Translation

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

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."

Darby Translation
For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

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.

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
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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 Jesus again used parables in talking to the people. ² "The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son. ³ He sent his servants to tell the invited guests to come to the feast, but they did not want to come. ⁴ So he sent other servants with this message for the guests: ‘My feast is ready now; my steers and prize calves have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!' ⁵ But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store, ⁶ while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them. ⁷ The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city. ⁸ Then he called his servants and said to them, ‘My wedding feast is ready, but the people I invited did not deserve it. ⁹ Now go to the main streets and invite to the feast as many people as you find.' ¹⁰ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, good and bad alike; and the wedding hall was filled with people.

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 saw the place in the distance.

Genesis 22:5
Then he said to the servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you."

Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, "God himself will provide one." And the two of them walked on together.

Genesis 22:10
Then he picked up the knife to kill him.

Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:14
Abraham named that place "The Lord Provides." And even today people say, "On the Lord 's mountain he provides."

Genesis 22:17
I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

Genesis 28:19
He named the place Bethel. (The town there was once known as Luz.)

Genesis 32:30
Jacob said, "I have seen God face-to-face, and I am still alive"; so he named the place Peniel.

Exodus 17:15
Moses built an altar and named it "The Lord is my Banner."

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!