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New Testament
Matthew 22
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
221Jesus spoke to them again in parables. He said, 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent out his servants to summon those who were invited to the wedding banquet, but they did not want to come.
4“Then he sent out other servants and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet!’
5“But those who were invited paid no attention and went off, one to his own farm, another to his business. 6The rest seized the king's servants, mistreated them, and killed them. 7As a result, the king was very angry. He sent his army and killed those murderers and burned their town.
8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9So go to the main crossroads and invite as many as you find to the wedding banquet.’ 10Those servants went out to the roads and gathered together everyone they found, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wearing wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. 13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Paying Taxes to Caesar
15Then the Pharisees went out and plotted together how to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in accord with the truth. You are not concerned about gaining anyone's approval because you are not swayed by appearances. 17So tell us, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
18But Jesus knew their evil purpose and said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? 19Show me the coin used for the tax.”
They brought him a denarius.
20He asked them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
21“Caesar's,” they replied to him.
Then he said to them, “Therefore give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
22When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.
The God of the Living
23That same day some Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him a question: 24“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother should marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’[] 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one died after he married her, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26It was the same with the second brother, the third, and all the way to the seventh. 27Last of all, the woman died. 28So then, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since they all married her?”
29“You are mistaken,” Jesus replied, “since you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30In fact, in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage. Instead they are like the angels of God in heaven. 31And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you never read what was spoken to you by God: 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.”
33When the crowds heard his answer, they were amazed at his teaching.
Love God and Your Neighbor
34When they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees met together. 35One of them who was an expert in the law asked him a question, trying to trap him. 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?”
37Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[] 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[] 40All the Law and the Prophets depend[] on these two commandments.”
David's Son and David's Lord
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: 42“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “The Son of David.”
43He said to them, “Then how can David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
44“The Lord said to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies
45“So if David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”
46No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
Footnotes
- 22:24 Deuteronomy 25:5
- 22:32 Exodus 3:6,15
- 22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5
- 22:39 Leviticus 19:18
- 22:40 Or hang
- 22:44 Psalm 110:1