Matthew 22 NO HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
22:1 And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
22:2 ''The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
22:3 ''and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
22:4 ''Again, he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, ''See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.'''
22:5 ''But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
22:6 ''And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
22:7 ''But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
22:8 ''Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
22:9 'Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding'.
22:10 ''So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
22:11 ''But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
22:12 ''So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment'? And he was speechless.
22:13 him into outer darkness; 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 plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
22:16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, ''Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.
22:17 ''Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?''
22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, ''Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?
22:19 ''Show Me the tax money.'' So they brought Him a denarius.
22:20 And He said to them, ''Whose image and inscription is this?''
22:21 They said to Him, ''Caesar's.'' And He said to them, ''Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.''
22:22 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
22:23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
22:24 saying: ''Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
22:25 ''Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
22:26 ''Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
22:27 ''Last of all the woman died also.
22:28 ''Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.''
22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, ''You are mistaken, not knowing 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 of God in heaven.
22:31 ''But concerning 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, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.''
22:33 And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
22:34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
22:35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
22:36 ''Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?''
22:37 Jesus 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 first and great commandment.
22:39 ''And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself'.
22:40 ''On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.''
22:41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
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, ''How then does David in the Spirit call Him 'Lord', saying:
22:44 'The Lord said to my Lord, ''Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool'''?
22:45 ''If David then calls Him 'Lord', how is He his Son?''
22:46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.