1: And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
2: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son,
3: and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come.
4: Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.’
5: But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
6: while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
7: The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8: Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
9: Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.’
10: And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11: “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
12: and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
13: Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.’
14: For many are called, but few are chosen.”
15: Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.
16: And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Hero’di-ans, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men.
17: Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18: But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
19: Show me the money for the tax.” And they brought him a coin.
20: And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
21: They said, “Caesar’s.” Then 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 heard it, they marveled; and they left him and went away.
23: The same day Sad’ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question,
24: saying, “Teacher, Moses said, `If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’
25: Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
26: So too the second and third, down to the seventh.
27: After them all, the woman died.
28: In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.”
29: But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
30: For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
31: And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
32: `I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
33: And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
34: But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sad’ducees, they came together.
35: And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
36: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37: And he 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 great and first commandment.
39: And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40: On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”
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, “The son of David.”
43: He said to them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
44: `The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet’?
45: If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?”
46: And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did any one dare to ask him any more questions.
