Parable of the Big Dinner

15: When one of those who were reclining
       at the table with Him heard this, he said
       to Him, " Blessed is everyone who will
       eat bread in the kingdom of God!"
16: But He said to him, " A man was giving
       a big dinner, and he invited many;
17: and at the dinner hour he sent his slave
       to say to those who had been invited,
       'Come; for everything is ready now.'
18: "But they all alike began to make excuses.
       The first one said to him, 'I have bought
       a piece of land and I need to go out and
       look at it; please consider me excused.'
19: "Another one said, 'I have bought five
       yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them
       out; please consider me excused.'
20: "Another one said, ' I have married
       a wife, and for that reason I cannot come.'
21: "And the slave came back and reported
       this to his master. Then the head of the
       household became angry and said to his
       slave, 'Go out at once into the streets
       and lanes of the city and bring in here
       the poor and crippled and blind and lame.'
22: "And the slave said, 'Master, what you
       commanded has been done, and still there
       is room.'
23: "And the master said to the slave, 'Go
       out into the highways and along the hedges,
       and compel them to come in, so that my
       house may be filled.
24: 'For I tell you, none of those men who
       were invited shall taste of my dinner.'"