1And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them , saying , 2The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king , who made a marriage feast for his son , 3and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast : and they would not come . 4Again he sent forth other servants , saying , Tell them that are bidden , Behold , I have made ready my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed , and all things are ready : come to the marriage feast . 5But they made light of it , and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise ; 6and the rest laid hold on his servants , and treated them shamefully, and killed them . 7But the king was wroth ; and he sent his armies , and destroyed those murderers , and burned their city . 8Then saith he to his servants , The wedding is ready , but they that were bidden were not worthy. 9Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways , and as many as ye shall find , bid to the marriage feast . 10And those servants went out into the highways , and gathered together all as many as they found , both bad and good : and the wedding was filled with guests. 11But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: 12and he saith unto him , Friend , how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless . 13Then the king said to the servants , Bind him hand and foot , and cast him out into the outer darkness ; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth . 14For many are called , but few chosen .
Paying Taxes to Caesar
15Then went the Pharisees , and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk . 16And they send to him their disciples , with the Herodians , saying , Teacher , we know that thou art true , and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one : for thou regardest not the person of men . 17Tell us therefore , What thinkest thou ? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar , or not ? 18But Jesus perceived their wickedness , and said , Why make ye trial of me , ye hypocrites ? 19Show me the tribute money . And they brought unto him a denarius . 20And he saith unto them , Whose is this image and superscription ? 21They say unto him , Cæsar ’s. Then saith he unto them , Render therefore unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar ’s; and unto God the things that are God ’s. 22And when they heard it , they marvelled , and left him , and went away.
The Sadducees and the Resurrection
23On that day there came to him Sadducees , they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him , 24saying , Teacher , Moses said , If a man die, having no children , his brother shall marry his wife , and raise up seed unto his brother. 25Now there were with us seven brethren : and the first married and deceased , and having no seed left his wife unto his brother; 26in like manner the second also , and the third , unto the seventh . 27And after them all , the woman died . 28In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven ? for they all had her . 29But Jesus answered and said unto them , Ye do err , not knowing the scriptures , nor the power of God . 30For in the resurrection they neither marry , nor are given in marriage , but are as angels in heaven . 31But as touching the resurrection of the dead , have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God , saying , 32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead , but of the living . 33And when the multitudes heard it , they were astonished at his teaching .
The Greatest Commandment
34But the Pharisees , when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence , gathered themselves together . 35And one of them , a lawyer , asked him a question , trying him : 36Teacher , which is the great commandment in the law ? 37And he said unto him , Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind . 38This is the great and first commandment . 39And a second like unto it is this , Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself . 40On these two commandments the whole law hangeth , and the prophets .
Whose Son is the Messiah?
41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together , Jesus asked them a question , 42saying , What think ye of the Christ ? whose son is he ? They say unto him , The son of David . 43He saith unto them , How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord , saying , 44The Lord said unto my Lord , Sit thou on my right hand , Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet ? 45If David then calleth him Lord , how is he his son ? 46And no one was able to answer him a word , neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions .