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| 22:1 |
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
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| 22:2 |
'The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a marriage feast for his son,
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| 22:3 |
and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast;but they would not come.
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| 22:4 |
Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready;come to the marriage feast.'
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| 22:5 |
But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
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| 22:6 |
while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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| 22:7 |
The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
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| 22:8 |
Then he said to his servants, The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
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| 22:9 |
Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.'
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| 22:10 |
And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good;so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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| 22:11 |
'But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
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| 22:12 |
and he said to him, Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
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| 22:13 |
Then the king said to the attendants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness;there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
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| 22:14 |
For many are called, but few are chosen.'
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| 22:15 |
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.
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| 22:16 |
And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Hero'di-ans, saying, 'Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for no man;for you do not regard the position of men.
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| 22:17 |
Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?'
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| 22:18 |
But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, 'Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
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| 22:19 |
Show me the money for the tax.' And they brought him a coin.
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| 22:20 |
And Jesus said to them, 'Whose likeness and inscription is this?'
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| 22:21 |
They said, 'Caesar's.' Then 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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| 22:22 |
When they heard it, they marveled;and they left him and went away.
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| 22:23 |
The same day Sad'ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection;and they asked him a question,
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| 22:24 |
saying, 'Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.'
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| 22:25 |
Now there were seven brothers among us;the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
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| 22:26 |
So too the second and third, down to the seventh.
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| 22:27 |
After them all, the woman died.
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| 22:28 |
In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her.'
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| 22:29 |
But Jesus answered them, 'You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
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| 22:30 |
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
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| 22:31 |
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
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| 22:32 |
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.'
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| 22:33 |
And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
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| 22:34 |
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sad'ducees, they came together.
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| 22:35 |
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
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| 22:36 |
'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?'
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| 22:37 |
And he said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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| 22:38 |
This is the great and first commandment.
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| 22:39 |
And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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| 22:40 |
On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.'
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| 22:41 |
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
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| 22:42 |
saying, 'What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?' They said to him, 'The son of David.'
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| 22:43 |
He said to them, 'How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
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| 22:44 |
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet'?
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| 22:45 |
If David thus calls him Lord, how is he his son?'
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| 22:46 |
And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did any one dare to ask him any more questions.
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