Paul's new message makes contact with a context provided by an item in his hearer's historical tradition—Deuteronomy—and also by the/a comic genre, which is a structure of the human mind.

Analysis of the relation of form and content in the parable of the wedding feast shows its distinctiveness alongside the true narrative parables and uncovers an emphasis, not so much on the consequences of the Kingdom coming as on the power of the divine to dispose of the human.