Matthew 22
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The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables: 2“The kingdom of heaven # Lk 14:16-24 may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. # Mt 13:24; Lk 12:36; Jn 2:2; Rv 19:7 3He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, # Est 6:14; Pr 9:3,5 but they didn’t want to come. 4Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ # Pr 9:2; Mt 21:36
5“But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business. 6And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them. 7The king # Other mss read But when the (that) king heard about it he was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.
8“Then he told his slaves, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. # Mt 10:11; Ac 13:46 9Therefore go to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’ # Ezk 21:21; Ob 14 10So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests. # Lit those reclining (to eat) 11But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding. # Rv 19:8; 22:14 12So he said to him, ‘Friend, # Mt 20:13; 26:50 how did you get in here without wedding clothes? ’ The man was speechless.
13“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, # Other mss add take him away and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14“For many are invited, but few are chosen.” # Mt 20:16; Rv 17:14
God and Caesar
15Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said. # Lit trap Him in a word # Mk 12:13-17; Lk 20:20-26 16They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. # Mk 2:8; 3:6; 8:15 “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality. # Lit don’t look on the face of men ; that is, on the outward appearance # Jn 3:2; Ac 10:34; 13:10; 18:26 17Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar # Mk 12:14,16-17; Lk 2:1; 3:1; 20:22,24-25; Jn 19:12,15 or not? ”
18But perceiving their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing Me, hypocrites? 19Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius. 20“Whose image and inscription is this? ” He asked them.
21“Caesar’s,” they said to Him.
Then He said to them, “Therefore give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” # Mt 17:25; Rm 13:7 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
23The same day some Sadducees, # Mk 12:18-27; Lk 20:27-38 who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him: # Mt 3:7; Ac 4:1; 23:8 24“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. # Dt 25:5 # Dt 25:5 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother. 26The same happened to the second also, and the third, and so to all seven. # Lit so until the seven 27Then last of all the woman died. 28In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.” # Lit all had her
29Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like # Other mss add God’s angels in heaven. # Mt 24:38; Lk 17:27 31Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God: 32I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? # Ex 3:6; Ac 7:32 # Ex 3:6,15-16 He # Other mss read God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
33And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
The Primary Commands
34When # Mk 12:28-33; Lk 10:25-28 the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together. 35And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him: # Lk 7:30; 10:25; 11:45; 14:3 36“Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest? ” # Lit is great
37He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. # Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27 # Dt 6:5 38This is the greatest and most important # Lit and first command. 39The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. # Lv 19:18; Mt 19:19 # Lv 19:18 40All the Law and the Prophets depend # Or hang on these two commands.” # Mt 7:12; Rm 13:8-10; Gl 5:14
The Question about the Messiah
41While the Pharisees were together, Jesus questioned them, # Mk 12:35-37; Lk 20:41-44 42“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He? ”
“David’s,” they told Him.
43He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, # Lit David in Spirit calls Him ‘Lord’ # 2Sm 23:2; Rv 1:10; 4:2:
44The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand
until I put Your enemies under Your feet’? # Other mss read until I make Your enemies Your footstool # Ps 110:1; Ac 2:34-35; 1Co 15:25; Heb 1:13; 10:13 # Ps 110:1
45“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son? ” 46No one was able to answer Him at all, # Lit answer Him a word and from that day no one dared to question Him anymore. # Mk 12:34; Lk 14:6; 20:40
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S. Matthew 22
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1And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, 2The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, which made a marriage feast for his son, 3and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come. 4Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast. 5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise: 6and the rest laid hold on his servants, and entreated them shamefully, and killed them. 7But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy. 9Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast. 10And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests. 11But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment: 12and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14For many are called, but few chosen.
15Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk. 16And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 19Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. 20And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. 22And when they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went their way.
23On that day there came to him Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him, 24saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother; 26in like manner the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 27And after them all the woman died. 28In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. 29But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do 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 in heaven. 31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 33And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. 35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, 36Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hangeth the whole law, and the prophets.
41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42saying, What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. 43He saith unto them, How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, 44The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet? 45If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son? 46And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
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