Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.

But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut.

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’