1 Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage
feast for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were
invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. 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!”’ 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, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and he 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 marriage 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; there 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 who 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 seed
for his brother.’ 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first
married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. 26 In
like manner 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 put the Sadducees to
silence, 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, and 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 dared any man from that
day forth ask him any more questions.
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