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 Mat 22:1 |
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: |
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Mat 22:2 |
"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. |
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Mat 22:3 |
He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. |
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Mat 22:4 |
"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.' |
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Mat 22:5 |
"But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. |
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Mat 22:6 |
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. |
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Mat 22:7 |
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. |
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Mat 22:8 |
"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. |
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Mat 22:9 |
So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' |
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Mat 22:10 |
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. |
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Mat 22:11 |
"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. |
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Mat 22:12 |
He asked, 'How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?' The man was speechless. |
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Mat 22:13 |
"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' |
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Mat 22:14 |
"For many are invited, but few are chosen." |
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Mat 22:15 |
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. |
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Mat 22:16 |
They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. |
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Mat 22:17 |
Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax [fn] to Caesar or not?" |
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Mat 22:18 |
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? |
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Mat 22:19 |
Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, |
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Mat 22:20 |
and he asked them, "Whose image is this? And whose inscription?" |
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Mat 22:21 |
"Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "So give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." |
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Mat 22:22 |
When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away. |
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Mat 22:23 |
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. |
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Mat 22:24 |
"Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. |
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Mat 22:25 |
Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. |
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Mat 22:26 |
The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. |
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Mat 22:27 |
Finally, the woman died. |
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Mat 22:28 |
Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?" |
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Mat 22:29 |
Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. |
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Mat 22:30 |
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. |
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Mat 22:31 |
But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, |
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Mat 22:32 |
'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' [fn]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." |
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Mat 22:33 |
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. |
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Mat 22:34 |
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. |
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Mat 22:35 |
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: |
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Mat 22:36 |
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" |
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Mat 22:37 |
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' [fn] |
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Mat 22:38 |
This is the first and greatest commandment. |
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Mat 22:39 |
And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' [fn] |
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Mat 22:40 |
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." |
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Mat 22:41 |
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, |
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Mat 22:42 |
"What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?" "The son of David," they replied. |
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Mat 22:43 |
He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For he says, |
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Mat 22:44 |
" 'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." ' [fn] |
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Mat 22:45 |
If then David calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" |
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Mat 22:46 |
No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions. |
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