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22:1  Jesus again in reply spoke to them in parables, saying,
22:2  “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
22:3  He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come.
22:4  A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.”’
22:5  Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.
22:6  The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
22:7  The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
22:8  Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come.
22:9  Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’
22:10  The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests.
22:11  But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
22:12  He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence.
22:13  Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’
22:14  Many are invited, but few are chosen.”
22:15  Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.
22:16  They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status.
22:17  Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?”
22:18  Knowing their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
22:19  Show me the coin that pays the census tax.” Then they handed him the Roman coin.
22:20  He said to them, “Whose image is this and whose inscription?”
22:21  They replied, “Caesar’s.” At that he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”
22:22  When they heard this they were amazed, and leaving him they went away.
22:23  On that day Sadducees approached him, saying that there is no resurrection. They put this question to him,
22:24  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up descendants for his brother.’
22:25  Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died and, having no descendants, left his wife to his brother.
22:26  The same happened with the second and the third, through all seven.
22:27  Finally the woman died.
22:28  Now at the resurrection, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had been married to her.”
22:29  Jesus said to them in reply, “You are misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.
22:30  At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.
22:31  And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
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 heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
22:35  and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking,
22:36  “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
22:37  He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, 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  The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
22:41  While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them,
22:42  saying, “What is your opinion about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “David’s.”
22:43  He said to them, “How, then, does David, inspired by the Spirit, call him ‘lord,’ saying:
22:44  ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I place 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 answer him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.