Jesus' Wedding Parable Makes No Sense (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

The parable of the wedding banquet might be the most baffling story Jesus ever told: a king incinerates a city, packs his hall with strangers off the street, then hurls one guest into outer darkness for showing up without the right robe.

This episode, we trace how Matthew, Luke, and the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas each tell the parable differently — and how each version quietly rewrites the villain, from the Jewish people to the merchant class itself. Turns out "many are called, but few are chosen" is attached to a far stranger tale than anyone taught you in Sunday school.

Chapters:

0:00 Cold Open & Comics
0:51 A Terrible Parable
1:43 Reading Matthew 22
4:19 Where It Breaks Down
4:34 Q and the Sources
6:18 The Missing Wedding Robe
8:17 Many Called, Few Chosen
9:14 Decoding the Allegory
10:34 Burning Jerusalem, 70 CE
13:09 What the Robe Means
15:37 Luke's Gentler Version
19:49 The Gospel of Thomas
23:24 Murky Waters
24:08 Support the Show

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/F4CjNLk5rDw?si=bnpvzROx7i46gat-