Mattityahu (Mat) 22
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1Yeshua again used parables in speaking to them: 2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son, 3but when he sent his slaves to summon the invited guests to the wedding, they refused to come. 4So he sent some more slaves, instructing them to tell the guests, ‘Look, I’ve prepared my banquet, I’ve slaughtered my bulls and my fattened cattle, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding!’ 5But they weren’t interested and went off, one to his farm, another to his business; 6and the rest grabbed his slaves, mistreated them and killed them. 7The king was furious and sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.
8“Then he said to his slaves, ‘Well, the wedding feast is ready; but the ones who were invited didn’t deserve it. 9So go out to the street-corners and invite to the banquet as many as you find.’ 10The slaves went out into the streets, gathered all the people they could find, the bad along with the good; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11“Now when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who wasn’t dressed for a wedding; so he asked him, 12‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. 13Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him outside in the dark!’ In that place people will wail and grind their teeth, 14for many are invited, but few are chosen.”
15Then the P’rushim went away and put together a plan to trap Yeshua with his own words. 16They sent him some of their talmidim and some members of Herod’s party. They said, “Rabbi, we know that you tell the truth and really teach what God’s way is. You aren’t concerned with what other people think about you, since you pay no attention to a person’s status. 17So tell us your opinion: does Torah permit paying taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?” 18Yeshua, however, knowing their malicious intent, said, “You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used to pay the tax!” They brought him a denarius; 20and he asked them, “Whose name and picture are these?” 21“The Emperor’s,” they replied. Yeshua said to them, “Nu, give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give to God what belongs to God!” 22On hearing this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
23That same day, some Tz’dukim came to him. They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurrection, so they put to him a sh’eilah: 24“Rabbi, Moshe said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother must marry his widow and have children to preserve the man’s family line.’ 25There were seven brothers. The first one married and then died; and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second brother, and the third, and finally to all seven. 27After them all, the woman died. 28Now in the Resurrection — of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all married her.”
29Yeshua answered them, “The reason you go astray is that you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God. 30For in the Resurrection, neither men nor women will marry; rather, they will be like angels in heaven. 31And as for whether the dead are resurrected, haven’t you read what God said to you, 32‘I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov’? He is God not of the dead but of the living!”
33When the crowds heard how he taught, they were astounded; 34but when the P’rushim learned that he had silenced the Tz’dukim, they got together, 35and one of them who was a Torah expert asked a sh’eilah to trap him: 36“Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” 37He told him, “‘You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’ 38This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 39And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”
41Then, turning to the assembled P’rushim, Yeshua put a sh’eilah to them: 42“Tell me your view concerning the Messiah: whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” 43“Then how is it,” he asked them, “that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord,’ when he says,
44‘Adonai said to my Lord,
“Sit here at my right hand
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
45If David thus calls him ‘Lord,’ how is he his son?” 46No one could think of anything to say in reply; and from that day on, no one dared put to him another sh’eilah.
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1And Jesus answering spoke to them again in parables, saying, 2The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son, 3and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come. 4Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast. 5But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce. 6And the rest, laying hold of his bondmen, ill-treated and slew them. 7And when the king heard of it he was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy; 9go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast. 10And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests. 11And the king, having gone in to see the guests, beheld there a man not clothed with a wedding garment. 12And he says to him, My friend, how camest thou in here not having on a wedding garment? But he was speechless. 13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him feet and hands, and take him away, and cast him out into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 14For many are called ones, but few chosen ones.
15Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking. 16And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person; 17tell us therefore what thou thinkest: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 18But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites? 19Shew me the money of the tribute. And they presented to him a denarius. 20And he says to them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Pay then what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. 22And when they heard him, they wondered, and left him, and went away.
23On that day came to him Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they demanded of him, 24saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one die, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother. 25Now there were with us seven brethren; and the first having married died, and not having seed, left his wife to his brother. 26In like manner also the second and the third, unto the seven. 27And last of all the woman also died. 28In the resurrection therefore of which of the seven shall she be wife, for all had her? 29And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. 30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in heaven. 31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of the dead, but of the living. 33And when the crowds heard it they were astonished at his doctrine.
34But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, demanded, tempting him, and saying, 36Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? 37And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments the whole law and the prophets hang.
41And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus demanded of them, 42saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, David's. 43He says to them, How then does David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, 44The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies under thy feet? 45If therefore David call him Lord, how is he his son? 46And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did any one dare from that day to question him any more.
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