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The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
The Parable of the Wedding Feast
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,
He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
“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.’
Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’
“But they paid no attention and went off — one to his field, another to his business.
But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’
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.
And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
“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.’
Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
Paying Taxes to Caesar
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
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.
Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
“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.”
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.
Marriage at the Resurrection
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection
The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,
The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,
“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.
saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’
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.
Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.
The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
So too the second and third, down to the seventh.
Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”
Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
But about the resurrection of the dead — have you not read what God said to you,
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:
‘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.”
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Greatest Commandment
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
The Great Commandment
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
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.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Whose Son Is the Messiah?
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Whose Son Is the Christ?
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,” they replied.
“The son of David,” they replied.
saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”