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52 lines
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# Chapter 22
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1 And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
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2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
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3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
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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.” ’
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5 But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
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6 And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
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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.
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8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
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9 Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
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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.
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11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
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12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
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13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
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15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
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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.
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17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
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18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?
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19 Show Me the tax money.”
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So they brought Him a denarius.
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20 And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
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21 They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
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And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
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22 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
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23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
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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.
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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.
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26 Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
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27 Last of all the woman died also.
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28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
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29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
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31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
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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.”
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33 And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
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34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
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35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
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36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
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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.’
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38 This is the first and great commandment.
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39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
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40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
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41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
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42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
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They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
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43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
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44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
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“Sit at My right hand,
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Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
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45 If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
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46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. |