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