Parable of the Great Banquet fed.</poem> The topic was the prescribed reading for the Second Sunday after Trinity and Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. For the first occasion Bach composed cantatas "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76" in 1723 and "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2" in 1724. For the second occasion he wrote Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180 in 1724. Parable of the Great Banquet The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew and Luke . It
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