Parable of the Wedding Feast because he used a Jewish Wedding as the setting of the story. Luke 14:11 says "Every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted"; this saying is also found in and . It is similar to . Parable of the Wedding Feast The Parable of the Wedding Feast is one of the parables of Jesus and appears in the New Testament in . It directly precedes the Parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14:15-24. In Matthew's Gospel, the parallel passage to Luke's Parable of the Great Banquet is also set as a
Parable of the Ten Virgins Faithful Servant (Matthew 24:42–51). The parable of the Ten Virgins reinforces the call for readiness in the face of the uncertain time of this second "coming." It has been described as a "watching parable." Like the parable of the Lost Coin, it is a parable about women which immediately follows, and makes the same point as, a preceding parable about men. In this parable, Jesus Christ is the bridegroom, echoing the Old Testament image of God as the bridegroom in Jeremiah and similar passages. The awaited event is the Second Coming of Christ. R. T. France writes that the parable