Matthew - Chapter 22 | New King James Version

  • 1. And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
  • 2. "The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
  • 3. and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
  • 4. Again, he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding." '
  • 5. But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
  • 6. And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
  • 7. But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • 8. Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
  • 9. Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'
  • 10. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
  • 11. But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
  • 12. So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
  • 13. Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and {cf2super [118]} cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
  • 14. For many are called, but few are chosen."
  • 15. Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
  • 16. And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.
  • 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." So they brought Him a denarius.
  • 20. And He said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?"
  • 21. They said to Him, "Caesar's." And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
  • 22. When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
  • 23. The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
  • 24. saying: "Teacher, Moses said that 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 died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
  • 26. Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
  • 27. Last of all the woman died also.
  • 28. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her."
  • 29. Jesus answered and said to 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 angels of God {cf2super [119]} in heaven.
  • 31. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
  • 32. 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? {cf2super [120]} God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
  • 33. And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
  • 34. But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
  • 35. Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
  • 36. "Teacher, which is the great 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.' {cf2super [121]}
  • 38. This is the first and great commandment.
  • 39. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' {cf2super [122]}
  • 40. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
  • 41. While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
  • 42. saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The Son 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 at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool" '? {cf2super [123]}
  • 45. "If David then calls Him 'Lord,' how is He his Son?"
  • 46. And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.
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