But when the king heard ... - This doubtless refers to the Jews and to Jerusalem. They were murderers, having slain the prophets; and God was about to send forth the armies of the Romans under his providential direction, and to burn up their city. See the notes at Matthew 24:0.Wroth - Angry; displeased. read more
Matthew 22:7. And when the king heard thereof, he was wroth Inasmuch as “the invitation to the marriage-feast of his son, sent by this king to his supposed friends, was the highest expression of his regard for them, and the greatest honour that could be done to them; therefore, when they refused it for such trifling reasons, and were so savagely ungrateful as to beat, and wound, and kill the servants who had come with it, it was justly viewed as a most outrageous affront, an injury that... read more
124. The royal wedding feast (Matthew 22:1-14)Throughout the Old Testament period and into the New, God sent his messengers to Israel, but the people ignored his message. God was like a king who invited people to a wedding feast for his son, but when the time for the feast arrived, they refused to come (Matthew 22:1-5). This was a picture of the refusal of the Jews to accept Jesus’ message and enter the kingdom of God. Their rejection of Jesus would bring God’s judgment upon them and result in... read more
thereof. See the varied supply of the Ellipsis after "heard" in verses: Matthew 22:7 , Matthew 22:22 ; Matthew 22:33 . his armies. The Roman armies. burned up their city. Greek. empretho. Occurs only here. This refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place shortly after the close of the Acts Dispensation. read more
Matthew 22:7. When the king heard thereof, he was wroth— The invitation to the marriage-supper of his son, sent by this king to his supposed friends, was the highest expression of his regard for them, and the greatest honour which could be shown them; therefore, when they refused it for such trifling reasons, and were so savagely ungrateful as to beat, wound, and kill the servants who came with it, it was a most outrageous affront; an injurydeserving of the severest punishment. Accordingly the... read more
7. But when the king—the Great God, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. heard thereof, he was wroth—at the affront put both on His Son, and on Himself who had deigned to invite them. and he sent forth his armies—The Romans are here styled God's armies, just as the Assyrian is styled "the rod of His anger" ( :-), as being the executors of His judicial vengeance. and destroyed those murderers—and in what vast numbers did they do it! and burned up their city—Ah! Jerusalem, once "the city... read more
The parable of the royal wedding banquet 22:1-14The three parables in this series are similar to three concentric circles in their scope. The scope of the parable of the two sons encompassed Israel’s leaders (Matthew 21:28-32). The parable of the wicked tenant farmers exposed the leaders’ lack of responsibility and their guilt to the people listening in as well as to the leaders themselves (Matthew 21:33-46). This last parable is the broadest of the three. It condemned the contempt with which... read more
Some of those invited not only refused the gracious invitation but abused and even murdered the king’s servants. Enraged at their conduct the king sent his army, destroyed the murderers, and burned down their city (cf. Matthew 21:38-41). Burning down an enemy’s city was a common fate of rebels in the ancient East (cf. 2 Chronicles 36:19; Nahum 3:14-15). Here Jesus implied it would happen to Jerusalem again. It did happen in A.D. 70 when the Roman emperor Titus finally overcame the Jewish rebels... read more
22:7 wroth, (k-10) 'And the king was wroth,' is probably the true reading. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 22:7
When the king heard thereof. The text varies here. Some manuscripts have "that king," to whom the rejection of his messengers was a personal insult. The Sinaitic, Vatican, and other authorities omit ἀκου ì σας , "heard thereof," and it may well be a gloss from the human view that the king, not being personally present, must have been informed of the incidents. At the same time, the King, regarded as God, needs no report to acquaint him with what is going on. He was wroth. The... read more