Matthew 22
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus answered and
spoke again in parables to them, saying, "The Kingdom
of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
and sent out his servants
to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not
come. 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!"' But they made light of it, and
went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, and the rest grabbed his
servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. When the king heard that, he was
angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their
city.
"Then he said to his
servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't
worthy. Go therefore to
the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to
the marriage feast.' 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. But when the king came in to see
the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
and he said to him,
'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was
speechless. 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.' For
many are called, but few chosen."
Paying Taxes to Caesar
Then the Pharisees
went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. 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. Tell us therefore, what do you
think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
But Jesus perceived
their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you
hypocrites? Show me the
tax money."
They brought to him a denarius.
He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
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."
When they heard it,
they marveled, and left him, and went away.
Marriage at the Resurrection
On that day Sadducees
(those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
saying, "Teacher,
Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry
his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.' Now there were with us seven
brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to
his brother. In like
manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh. After them all, the woman died.
In the resurrection
therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."
But Jesus answered
them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures,
nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in
heaven. But concerning
the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to
you by God, saying, '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."
When the multitudes
heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Greatest Commandment
But the Pharisees, when they
heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
One of them, a lawyer,
asked him a question, testing him. "Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the law?"
Jesus said to him,
"'You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great
commandment. A second
likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' The whole law and the prophets
depend on these two commandments."
Whose Son Is the Christ
Now while the
Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is
he?"
They said to him, "Of David."
He said to them,
"How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord,
saying,
'The Lord said to my
Lord,
sit on my right hand,
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'
"If then David calls him
Lord, how is he his son?"
No one was able to
answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions
from that day forth.
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