¹Then Jesus reacted and spoke to them again in parables, and he said, ²“The kingdom of the heavens is like a man who is a king who arranged a wedding reception for his son. ³And he sent out his servants to invite the guests to the wedding, but they would not come. ⁴Again, he sent out some more servants, and he said, ‘Say to the guests, «Look, I have prepared my banquet-meal. My bulls and fatted cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding.» ’ ⁵But they did not care for it and went off, one to his own field, another to his merchant business, ⁶and the remainder seized his servants and dealt with them spitefully, and they killed them. ⁷And when that king heard it, he became angry, and he sent his army, and he destroyed those murderers and burned their city. ⁸Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but the guests were not worthy. ⁹So go to the arterial roads and invite whoever you find to the wedding.’ ¹⁰So those servants went out to the roads and gathered everyone they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with diners. ¹¹Then the king came to see the diners and saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes, ¹²and he said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you have come here not having wedding dress?’ And he was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him by the feet and hands and remove him and cast him into the outer darkness. There, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.” ¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel as to how to trap him in his speech, ¹⁶and they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, who said, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not concern yourself with the opinion of anyone, for you do not regard the status of men. ¹⁷So tell us, what do you think? Is it permitted to pay census-tax to Caesar or not?” ¹⁸But Jesus, having become aware of their wickedness, said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the official coin of the census-tax.” So they brought a denary to him. ²⁰Then he said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” ²¹They said to him, “Caesar's.” Then he said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are of Caesar, and to God the things that are of God.” ²²And when they heard this, they were amazed, and they left him and departed. ²³On that day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him, ²⁴saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If someone dies, not having children, his brother shall marry his wife in the capacity of the deceased's brother and raise seed to his brother.’ ²⁵Now there were seven brothers in our community. And the first married, and he died, and not having any seed, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶Likewise also the second, and the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷And last of all, the woman died too. ²⁸In the resurrection then, to whom of the seven will she be wife? For all of them had her.” ²⁹Then Jesus answered and said to them, “You are going astray, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. ³⁰For in the resurrection, they do not marry nor are given in marriage, but they are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, where he says, ³²‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not a God of the dead, but of the living.” ³³And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching. ³⁴But the Pharisees, having heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered right there together, ³⁵and one of them, a scholar in the law, asked him a question, testing him, and he said, ³⁶“Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the law?” ³⁷And 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. ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. ⁴⁰In these two commandments hang the whole of the law and the prophets.” ⁴¹Then when the Pharisees had gathered together, Jesus questioned them, ⁴²and he said, “What do you think about Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David's.” ⁴³He said to them, “How come then David calls him Lord in the spirit, saying,

Until I make your enemies your footstool» ’?

⁴⁵If, then, David calls him Lord, how is it that he is his son?” ⁴⁶And no-one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare to question him any longer from that day.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.24 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.32 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.37 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5 ● v.39 ↔ Leviticus 19:18 ● v.44 ↔ Psalm 110:1.