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spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they refused to come.
4 “Again, he sent out other servants, and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited: “Look, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet” ’.
5 “But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own farm, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent out his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 Therefore, go into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet’. 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not suitably dressed for a wedding. 12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
13 “Then the king said to the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth’.
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
15 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might entangle Him in His words. 16 They 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 accordance with the truth. And You aren’t swayed by anyone, for you don’t show regard for who they are. 17 Tell us, then, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why are you putting Me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius. 20 Then He asked them, “Whose portrait is this, and whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then He said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God to the things that are God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.
23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without any children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second also, and the third, down to the seventh. 27 Last of all the woman died. 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”
29 Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they came there together, 35 and one of them who was an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’. 40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
“The Son of David,” they replied.
43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord’? For he says,
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand,
until I put your enemies
under your feet” ’?
45 “If then David calls him ‘Lord’, how can He be his son?” 46 No one was able to answer Him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask Him any more questions.