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22:1  Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,
22:2  “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
22:3  He sent forth his servants to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
22:4  Then he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Behold, my banquet has been prepared, my oxen and my fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.” ’
22:5  “But they ignored his invitation. One went off to his farm, another to his business,
22:6  while the rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
22:7  “The king was enraged, and he sent forth his troops who destroyed those murderers and burned their city to the ground.
22:8  Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy of that honor.
22:9  Go forth, therefore, to the main roads and invite everyone you can find to the wedding banquet.’
22:10  The servants went forth into the streets and gathered together everyone they could find, good and bad alike. And so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
22:11  “But when the king came in to greet the guests, he noticed one man who was not properly dressed for a wedding.
22:12  ‘My friend,’ he said to him, ‘how did you gain entrance here without a wedding garment?’ The man was speechless.
22:13  Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet and cast him outside into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.”
22:15  Then the Pharisees went off and made plans to trap him in what he said.
22:16  They sent some of their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, and said, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Nor are you concerned with anyone’s opinion for you do not care about people’s opinions.
22:17  Tell us then what you think about this: Is it lawful or not for us to pay taxes to Caesar?”
22:18  Jesus was aware of their malicious intent, and he said, “You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?
22:19  Show me the coin that is used for paying the tax.” When they brought him a denarius,
22:20  he asked them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?”
22:21  They replied, “Caesar’s.” On hearing this, he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is due to Caesar, and to God what is due to God.”
22:22  Stunned on hearing this reply, they went away and left him alone.
22:23  On that same day, the Sadducees, who assert that there is no resurrection, approached him and posed this question,
22:24  “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry his brother’s wife and raise up children for his brother.
22:25  Now there were seven brothers who belonged to our group. The first one married and died without issue, and therefore left his wife to his brother.
22:26  The same result occurred with the second brother and the third, right down to the seventh.
22:27  Finally, the woman herself died.
22:28  Now at the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, inasmuch as all of them had her?”
22:29  Jesus answered them, “You are in error, for you do not understand the Scriptures or the power of God.
22:30  At the resurrection they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They are like the angels in heaven.
22:31  “And in regard to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God himself said to you:
22:32  ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
22:33  When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
22:34  When the Pharisees learned that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
22:35  and, to test him, one of them, a lawyer, asked this question,
22:36  “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
22:37  Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
22:38  This is the greatest and the first commandment.
22:39  The second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
22:40  Everything in the Law and the Prophets depends on these two commandments.”
22:41  While the Pharisees were assembled together, Jesus asked them this question,
22:42  “What is your opinion about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They replied, “He is the son of David.”
22:43  He responded, “How is it then that David, under the inspiration of the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord,’ saying:
22:44  ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet” ’?
22:45  If David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
22:46  No one was able to give him an answer, and from that day onward no one dared to ask him any further questions.