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The Parable of the Wedding Feast
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’
“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.’
But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
“But they paid no attention and went off — one to his field, another to his business.
The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man 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.’
The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
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.
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, therefore, what do 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?
Show Me the tax money.”
So they brought Him a denarius.
So they brought Him a denarius.
Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“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.”
When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
The Sadducees: What About the Resurrection?
The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
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.
saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
“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.
Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to 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.
Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
But about the resurrection of the dead — have you not read what God said to you,
‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?
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.
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.
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus: How Can David Call His Descendant Lord?
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Whose Son Is the Messiah?
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,” they replied.
“The son of David,” they replied.
He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”