22Matthew 22

1And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:Select Matthew 22:1

2The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son.Select Matthew 22:2

3And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the marriage: and they would not come.Select Matthew 22:3

4Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.Select Matthew 22:4

5But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.Select Matthew 22:5

6And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.Select Matthew 22:6

7But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.Select Matthew 22:7

8Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.Select Matthew 22:8

9Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.Select Matthew 22:9

10And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.Select Matthew 22:10

11And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.Select Matthew 22:11

12And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.Select Matthew 22:12

13Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Select Matthew 22:13

14For many are called, but few are chosen.Select Matthew 22:14

15Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.Select Matthew 22:15

16And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.Select Matthew 22:16

17Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?Select Matthew 22:17

18But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?Select Matthew 22:18

19Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.Select Matthew 22:19

20And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?Select Matthew 22:20

21They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.Select Matthew 22:21

22And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways.Select Matthew 22:22

23That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,Select Matthew 22:23

24Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.Select Matthew 22:24

25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.Select Matthew 22:25

26In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the seventh.Select Matthew 22:26

27And last of all the woman died also.Select Matthew 22:27

28At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her.Select Matthew 22:28

29And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.Select Matthew 22:29

30For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.Select Matthew 22:30

31And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:Select Matthew 22:31

32I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.Select Matthew 22:32

33And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.Select Matthew 22:33

34But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together.Select Matthew 22:34

35And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:Select Matthew 22:35

36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?Select Matthew 22:36

37Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.Select Matthew 22:37

38This is the greatest and the first commandment.Select Matthew 22:38

39And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.Select Matthew 22:39

40On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.Select Matthew 22:40

41And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,Select Matthew 22:41

42Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David's.Select Matthew 22:42

43He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:Select Matthew 22:43

44The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?Select Matthew 22:44

45If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?Select Matthew 22:45

46And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.Select Matthew 22:46