إنجيل القدّيس متّى .14-1:22
قالَ الربُّ يَسُوعُ أَيْضًا بِالأَمْثَالِ
يُشْبِهُ مَلَكُوتُ السَّمَاوَاتِ مَلِكًا أَقَامَ عُرْسًا لٱبْنِهِ
وأَرْسَلَ عَبِيْدَهُ لِيَدْعُوا المَدْعُوِّينَ إِلى العُرْس، فَرَفَضُوا أَنْ يَأْتُوا
وعَادَ فَأَرْسَلَ عَبِيدًا آخَرِين، قَائِلاً: قُولُوا لِلْمَدعُوِّين: هَا أَنَا قَدْ أَعْدَدْتُ ولِيمَتِي، وذَبَحْتُ ثِيرَانِي ومُسَمَّنَاتِي، وكُلُّ شَيءٍ مُعَدّ. تَعَالَوا إِلى العُرْس
ولكِنَّ المَدْعُوِّينَ لَمْ يَكْتَرِثُوا، فَمَضَوا وَاحِدٌ إِلى حَقْلِهِ وآخَرُ إِلى تِجَارَتِهِ
والبَاقُونَ قَبَضُوا عَلى عَبِيدِ المَلِكِ فَأَهَانُوهُم وقَتَلُوهُم
فَغَضِبَ المَلِكُ وأَرْسَلَ جُنُودَهُ فَأَهْلَكَ أُولئِكَ القَتَلَة، وأَحْرَقَ مَدِينَتَهُم
حِينَئِذٍ قَالَ لِعَبِيدِهِ: أَلْعُرسُ مُعَدٌّ، ولكِنَّ المَدْعُوِّينَ مَا كَانُوا لَهُ أَهلاً
فَٱذْهَبُوا إِلى مَفَارِقِ الطُّرُق، وَٱدْعُوا إِلى العُرْسِ كُلَّ مَنْ تَجِدُونَهُ
وَخَرَجَ أُولئِكَ العَبِيْدُ إِلى الطُّرُقِ فَجَمَعُوا كُلَّ مَنْ وَجَدُوا مِنْ أَشْرَارٍ وصَالِحِيْن، فَٱمْتَلأَتْ قَاعَةُ العُرْسِ بِالمُتَّكِئِيْن
ودَخَلَ المَلِكُ لِيَنْظُرَ المُتَّكِئِيْنَ فَرَأَى رَجُلاً لا يَلْبَسُ حُلَّةَ العُرْس
فقَالَ لَهُ: يَا صَاحِب، كَيْفَ دَخَلْتَ إِلى هُنَا ولَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ حُلَّةُ العُرْس؟ فَظَلَّ صَامِتًا
حِينَئِذٍ قَالَ المَلِكُ لِلْخُدَّام: أُرْبُطُوا رِجْلَيهِ ويَدَيْه، وأَخْرِجُوهُ إِلى الظُّلْمَةِ البَرَّانِيَّة. هُنَاكَ يَكُونُ البُكَاءُ وصَرِيفُ الأَسْنَان؛
لأَنَّ المَدْعُوِّينَ كَثِيرُون، أَمَّا المُخْتَارُونَ فقَلِيلُون
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13:1-9.
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.
He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?
By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!
Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them –do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem?
By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”
And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none,
he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. (So) cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’
He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.'”