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| 1. | Again Jesus spoke to them in figurative language. |
| 2. | "The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "may be compared to a king who celebrated the marriage of his son, |
| 3. | and sent his servants to call the invited guests to the wedding, but they were unwilling to come. |
| 4. | "Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "`My breakfast is now ready," he said, `my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.' |
| 5. | "They however gave no heed, but went, one to his home in the country, another to his business; |
| 6. | and the rest seized the king's servants, maltreated them, and murdered them. |
| 7. | So the king's anger was stirred, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. |
| 8. | Then he said to his servants, "`The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy of it. |
| 9. | Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding.' |
| 10. | "So they went out into the roads and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall was filled with guests. |
| 11. | "Now the king came in to see the guests; and among them he discovered one who was not wearing a wedding-robe. |
| 12. | "`My friend,' he said, `how is it that you came in here without a wedding robe?' |
| 13. | "The man stood speechless. Then the king said to the servants, "`Bind him hand and foot and fling him into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.' |
| 14. | "For there are many called, but few chosen." |
| 15. | Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation. |
| 16. | So they sent to Him their disciples together with the Herodians; who said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you faithfully teach God's truth; and that no fear of man misleads you, for you are not biased by men's wealth or rank. |
| 17. | Give us your judgement therefore: is it allowable for us to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?" |
| 18. | Perceiving their wickedness, Jesus replied, "Why are you hypocrites trying to ensnare me? |
| 19. | Show me the tribute coin." And they brought Him a shilling. |
| 20. | "Whose likeness and inscription," He asked, "is this?" |
| 21. | "Caesar's," they replied. "Pay therefore," He rejoined, "what is Caesar's to Caesar; and what is God's to God." |
| 22. | They heard this, and were astonished; then left Him, and went their way. |
| 23. | On the same day a party of Sadducees came to Him, contending that there is no resurrection. And they put this case to Him. |
| 24. | "Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, `If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.' |
| 25. | Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother. |
| 26. | So also did the second and the third, down to the seventh, |
| 27. | till the woman also died, after surviving them all. |
| 28. | At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her." |
| 29. | The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God. |
| 30. | For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven. |
| 31. | But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you, |
| 32. | `I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead, but of living men." |
| 33. | All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching. |
| 34. | Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, |
| 35. | and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question, |
| 36. | "Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?" |
| 37. | "`Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "`with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.' |
| 38. | This is the greatest and foremost Commandment. |
| 39. | And the second is similar to it: `Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.' |
| 40. | The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments." |
| 41. | While the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus put a question to them. |
| 42. | "What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied. |
| 43. | "How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says, |
| 44. | "`The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'? |
| 45. | "If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?" |
| 46. | No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him. |