Matthew 22

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1. 1And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, and said,
2. 2"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
3. 3He sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding, but they would not come.
4. 4So he sent more servants with this message: 'Tell the guests, "Look, the banquet is prepared! My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!"'
5. 5But they ignored it and went their own ways, one to his farm, another to his business.
6. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them spitefully, and killed them.
7. 7The king was furious. He sent his armies to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
8. 8Then he told his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but the people I invited didn't deserve to come.
9. 9“Therefore, go into the highways and invite as many as you find to the wedding feast.”
10. 10So 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. 11But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man who wasn't wearing wedding clothes.
12. 12He said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man had nothing to say.
13. 13Then the king told his servants, 'Tie him hand and foot and throw him outside into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
14. 14For many are called, but few are chosen."
15. 15After this, the Pharisees got together and plotted how to trap Jesus with his own words.
16. 16They sent their disciples to him along with supporters of Herod. "Teacher," they said, "we know you're an honest man who teaches God's way truthfully. You don't play favorites or care about anyone's status.
17. 17So tell us what you think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
18. 18But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, "Why are you trying to tempt me, you hypocrites?"
19. 19"Show me the coin used to pay the tax." They handed him a denarius.
20. 20"Whose image and inscription is on this?" he asked them.
21. 21"Caesar's," they answered. Then Jesus said, "So give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God."
22. 22When they heard these words, they were amazed, and left him, and went away.
23. 23That same day, the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
24. 24"Teacher," they said, "Moses taught that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children on his behalf.
25. 25Now, there were 7 brothers among us. The first one married and died without children, so his wife passed to his brother.
26. 26The same thing happened with the second brother, then the third, and so on through all 7.
27. 27Finally, the woman died too.
28. 28So here's our question: In the resurrection, whose wife will she be? After all, she was married to all 7 of them."
29. 29Jesus replied, "You are mistaken, because you don't understand the Scriptures or the power of God."
30. 30In the resurrection, people won't marry or be given in marriage. They'll be like the angels of God in heaven.
31. 31And as for whether the dead are raised — haven't you read what God himself said to you:
32. 32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He's not the God of the dead — he's the God of the living."
33. 33When the crowd heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.
34. 34When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35. 35Then one of them, who was a lawyer, asked him a question, trying to tempt him, and said,
36. 36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
37. 37Jesus answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
38. 38This is the first and greatest commandment.
39. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
40. 40Everything in the law and the prophets hangs on these 2 commandments."
41. 41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
42. 42"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They answered, "He is the son of David."
43. 43Jesus said, "Then how is it that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him Lord? David said,
44. 44The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
45. 45If David calls him Lord, how can he be David's son?"
46. 46No one could answer him. And from that day on, nobody dared ask him any more questions.