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