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Matthew 22:10

Render Unto Caesar

So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. Matthew 22:10 · Berean Standard Bible

What It Means

Matthew 22:10, in plain English

The servants go out and gather everyone they can find — both bad and good — and the wedding hall is packed.

Why it's here

God's invitation doesn't come with a purity test at the door. Everyone is invited in. But there's more to the story.

Who's speaking

The narrator shows the hall full of the most unlikely guests.

Where it sits in the story

The room fills with people no one expected. That's grace in action — but the story isn't over yet.

A Closer Look

The scholarly reading

The servants gather 'both evil and good' (ponērous te kai agathous) and the hall is filled — the church is a mixed community, not yet sorted until the final judgment.

Language and setting

The presence of 'evil and good' parallels the wheat-and-tares parable (Matt 13:24-30), depicting the church as a mixed body awaiting eschatological separation.

Voice

The narrator describes the wedding hall filled with a diverse, unvetted collection of guests.

Significance

The banquet fills with an unlikely crowd — good and bad alike. The sorting will come later.

In context

Matthew 22:8–12

8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

9Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’

10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’

Read all of Matthew 22 — A wedding banquet, a trick question about taxes, and the greatest commandment — Jesus outmaneuvers every trap set for him.

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