"Many are called, but few chosen" appears only in Matthew 20:16 and 22:14, each time closing a parable, the first about God calling people to His work and the second about calling them to the Wedding Supper. The Greek terms are related: kletos (called) means invited, appointed, or summoned and is general, while eklektos (chosen) means picked out or elect and is more specific. In the Parable of the Wedding Feast, all who fill the hall, good and bad, are called, but the king's evaluation and rejection of the man without a wedding garment is the negative side of being chosen. Calling is broad and has simple qualifications: God calls rich and poor, Jew and Gentile, slave and free, man and woman. It is not merely hearing the gospel, since John 6:44 shows God prepares a person's mind. Once called, the choosing begins, and judgment starts at the house of God (I Peter 4:17). Few are willing to overcome, grow, and bear fruit, and even some who attend Sabbath services prove to have no wedding garment. Salvation is a gift, yet choosing is a joint effort: God's Spirit empowers believers to put on righteousness, yield to being molded into His image, and show faithfulness and obedience. Hundreds of thousands have been introduced to the truth and returned to the world's religions, while only a few thousand have made their call and election sure. Those called are not the wise, mighty, or noble but the weak and despised (I Corinthians 1:26-29), and the world cannot receive the truth because it has not been called.