Matthew 22:14 · King James Version
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen--So Mat 19:30. See on Mat 20:16.
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What does Matthew 22:14 say?
Matthew 22:14 in the King James Version reads: “For many are called, but few are chosen.” Read it in the full context of Matthew 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 22:14 found in the Bible?
Matthew 22:14 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 22, verse 14, in the New Testament.
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For many are called, but few chosen. See Gill on Mat 20:16
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mat 22:15Then went the Pharisees,.... After they had heard the parables of the two sons being bid to go into the vineyard, of the vineyard let out to husbandmen, and of the marriage feast; for it is clear from hence, that these stayed and heard the last of these parables, in all which they saw themselves designed; and though they were irritated and provoked to the last degree, they were obliged to hide their resentments, nor durst they use any violence for fear of the people; wherefore they retired to some convenient place, to the council chamber, or to the palace of the high priest, or where the chief priests were gone, who seem to have departed some time before them:
and took counsel; among themselves, and of others, their superiors; not how they should behave more agreeably for the future, and escape due punishment and wrath to the uttermost, which the King of kings would justly inflict on them, very plainly signified in the above parables; but
how they might entangle him in his talk, or "take hold of his words", as in Luke; or "catch him in his words", as in Mark: they consulted to draw him into a conversation, on a dangerous and ensnaring subject; when they hoped a word might drop unwarily from him, which they might catch at, lay hold on, and improve to his disadvantage; either with the common people, or the government, and especially the latter; as is to be learned from Luke, who expressly says their end was,
that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor; the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, should he say any thing against Caesar, which they endeavoured to ensnare him into; by which means, they doubted not of setting the populace against him, and of screening themselves from their resentments; and of gaining their main point, the delivery of him up into the hands of the civil government, who, for treason and sedition, would put him to death.