Matthew 22:5
Good News Translation
But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store,

New Revised Standard Version
But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business,

Contemporary English Version
But the guests did not pay any attention. Some of them left for their farms, and some went to their places of business.

New American Bible
Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

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Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Genesis 25:34 And so taking bread and the pottage of lentils, he ate, and drank, and went on his way; making little account of having sold his first birthright.

Psalm 106:24,25 And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his word, . . .

Proverbs 1:7,24,25 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Acts 2:13 But others mocking, said: These men are full of new wine.

Acts 24:25 And as he treated of justice and chastity and of the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.

Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

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Matthew 13:22 And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

Matthew 24:38,39 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark: . . .

Luke 14:18-20 And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray thee, hold me excused. . . .

Luke 17:26-32 And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. . . .

Romans 8:6 For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

1 Timothy 6:9,10 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . .

2 Timothy 3:4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . .

Context
The Parable of the Banquet
4Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage. 5But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise. 6And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.…
Cross References
Matthew 22:4
Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.

Matthew 22:6
And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

John 2:16
And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

Matthew 22:4
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