The Parable of the Wedding Feast

¹And again Jesus ospoke to them in parables, saying, ²p“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave qa wedding feast for his son, ³and rsent his servants1 to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. ⁴sAgain he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my tdinner, umy oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ ⁵But vthey paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, ⁶while the rest seized his servants, wtreated them shamefully, and xkilled them. ⁷The king was angry, and he sent his troops and ydestroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not zworthy. ⁹Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ ¹⁰And those servants went out into the roads and bgathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

¹¹“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there ca man who had no wedding garment. ¹²And he said to him, d‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and ecast him into the outer darkness. In that place ethere will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴For many are fcalled, but few are fchosen.”

Paying Taxes to Caesar

¹⁵gThen the Pharisees went and plotted how hto entangle him in his words. ¹⁶And they sent itheir disciples to him, along with jthe Herodians, saying, “Teacher, kwe know that you are true and teach lthe way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for myou are not swayed by appearances.2 ¹⁷Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay ntaxes to oCaesar, or not?” ¹⁸But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why pput me to the test, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius.3 ²⁰And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” ²¹They said, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, q“Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” ²²When they heard it, they marveled. And they rleft him and went away.

Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection

²³The same day sSadducees came to him, twho say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, ²⁴saying, “Teacher, Moses said, u‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’ ²⁵Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. ²⁶So too the second and third, down to the seventh. ²⁷After them all, the woman died. ²⁸In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”

²⁹But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, vbecause you know neither the Scriptures nor wthe power of God. ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither xmarry nor xare given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ³¹And as for the resurrection of the dead, yhave you not read what was said to you by God: ³²z‘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.” ³³And when the crowd heard it, athey were astonished at his teaching.

The Great Commandment

³⁴bBut when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced cthe Sadducees, they gathered together. ³⁵dAnd one of them, ea lawyer, asked him a question fto test him. ³⁶“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷And he said to him, g“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And ha second is like it: iYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰jOn these two commandments depend kall the Law and the Prophets.”

Whose Son Is the Christ?

⁴¹lNow while the Pharisees mwere gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, ⁴²saying, “What do you think about nthe Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, n“The son of David.” ⁴³He said to them, “How is it then that David, oin the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴p“‘The Lord said to my Lord,

“Sit at my right hand,

until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

⁴⁵If then David calls him Lord, qhow is he his son?” ⁴⁶rAnd no one was able to answer him a word, snor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.