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22:1  And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,
22:2  “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
22:3  And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been called to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come.
22:4  Again he sent out other slaves saying, ‘Tell those who have been called, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are all butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’
22:5  But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,
22:6  and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them.
22:7  But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
22:8  Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were called were not worthy.
22:9  Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, call to the wedding feast.’
22:10  And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.
22:11  “But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,
22:12  and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.
22:13  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
22:14  For many are called, but few are chosen.”
22:15  Then the Pharisees went and took counsel together about how they might trap Him in what He said.
22:16  And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.
22:17  Therefore, tell us, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a tax to Caesar, or not?”
22:18  But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?
22:19  Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.
22:20  And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
22:21  They *said to Him, “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.”
22:22  And hearing this, they marveled, and leaving Him, they went away.
22:23  On that day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and asked Him a question,
22:24  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife and raise up a seed for his brother.’
22:25  Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother;
22:26  so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh.
22:27  And last of all, the woman died.
22:28  In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”
22:29  But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.
22:30  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
22:31  But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
22:32  ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
22:33  And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
22:34  But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.
22:35  And one of them, a scholar of the Law, asked Him a question, testing Him,
22:36  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
22:37  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.’
22:38  This is the great and foremost commandment.
22:39  And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
22:40  On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”
22:41  Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
22:42  saying, “What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?” They *said to Him, “The son of David.”
22:43  He *said to them, “Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying,
22:44  ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet”’?
22:45  Therefore, if David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”
22:46  And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.