1 Jesus answered and spoke to them
again in parables, saying,
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain
king, who made a wedding feast for
his son,
3 and sent out his servants to call those
who were invited to the wedding feast, but
they would not come.
4 Again he sent out other servants, saying,
‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I
have prepared my dinner. My cattle and
my fatlings are killed, and all things are
ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’
5 But they made light of it, and went their
ways, one to his own farm, another to his
merchandise;
6 and the rest grabbed his servants,
treated them shamefully, and killed them.
7 When the king heard that, he was angry,
and sent his armies, destroyed those
murderers, and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding
is ready, but those who were invited
weren’t worthy.
9 Go therefore to the intersections of the
highways, and as many as you may find,
invite to the wedding feast.’
10 Those servants went out into the highways
and gathered together as many as
they found, both bad and good. The wedding
was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to see the
guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have
on wedding clothing,
12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did
you come in here not wearing wedding
clothing?’ He was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the servants,
‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away,
and throw him into the outer darkness.
That is where the weeping and grinding of
teeth will be.’ 14 For many are called, but few chosen.”
15 Then the Pharisees went and took
counsel how they might entrap him in his
talk.
16 They sent their disciples to him, along
with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we
know that you are honest, and teach the
way of God in truth, no matter whom you
teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone.
17 Tell us therefore, what do you think?
Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness,
and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
19 Show me the tax money.”
They brought to him a denarius.
20 He asked them, “Whose is this image
and inscription?”
21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
Then he said to them, “Give therefore to
Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to
God the things that are God’s.”
22 When they heard it, they marveled,
and left him and went away.
23 On that day Sadducees (those who say
that there is no resurrection) came to him.
They asked him,
24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man
dies, having no children, his brother shall
marry his wife and raise up offspring† for
his brother.’ 25 Now there were with us seven brothers.
The first married and died, and having
no offspring left his wife to his brother.
26 In the same way, the second also, and
the third, to the seventh.
27 After them all, the woman died.
28 In the resurrection therefore, whose
wife will she be of the seven? For they all
had her.”
29 But Jesus answered them, “You are
mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor
the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection they neither
marry nor are given in marriage, but are
like God’s angels in heaven.
31 But concerning the resurrection of the
dead, haven’t you read that which was
spoken to you by God, saying,
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?* God is not
the God of the dead, but of the living.”
33 When the multitudes heard it, they
were astonished at his teaching.
34 But the Pharisees, when they heard
that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered
themselves together.
35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a
question, testing him.
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment
in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind.’*
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall
love your neighbor as yourself.’*
40 The whole law and the prophets depend
on these two commandments.”
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered
together, Jesus asked them a question,
42 saying, “What do you think of the
Christ? Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “Of David.”
43 He said to them, “How then does David
in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
sit on my right hand,
until I make your enemies a footstool
for your feet’?*
45 “If then David calls him Lord, how is
he his son?”
46 No one was able to answer him a word,
neither did any man dare ask him any
more questions from that day forward.
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