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¹ AND Jesus answered again by parables, and said,² The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a marriage-feast for his son.³ And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage-feast, but they would not come.⁴ Again he sent other servants and said, Tell those who are invited, Behold my supper is ready, and my oxen and fatlings are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the marriage- feast.⁵ But they sneered at it, and went away, one to his field, another to his business;⁶ And the rest seized his servants and insulted them, and killed them.⁷ When the king heard it he was angry; and he sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.⁸ Then he said to his servants, Now the marriage-feast is ready, and those who were invited were unworthy.⁹ Go, therefore, to the main roads, and whomever you may find, invite them to the marriage- feast.¹⁰ So the servants went out to the roads and gathered together every one they could find, bad and good; and the wedding-house was filled with guests.¹¹ When the king entered to see the guests, he saw there a man who was not wearing wedding garments.¹² And he said to him, My friend, how did you enter here, when you do not have wedding garments? And he was speechless.¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Bind his hands and his feet and take him out into darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.¹⁴ For many are invited, and few are chosen.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went away and took counsel how to trap him by a word.¹⁶ So they sent to him their disciples together with the Herodians, and they said to him, Teacher, we know that you are true, and you teach the way of God justly; and you do not favor any man, for you do not discriminate between men.¹⁷ Tell us, therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay head-tax to Caesar, or not?¹⁸ But Jesus knew their evil, and said, Why do you tempt me, O hypocrites?¹⁹ Show me the head-tax penny. And they brought to him a penny.²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Whose is this image and inscription?²¹ They said, Caesar''s. He said to them, Give therefore to Caesar what is Caesar''s, and to God what is God''s.²² And when they heard it, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.

²³ That same day the Sadducees came and said to him, There is no resurrection of the dead; and they asked him,²⁴ And said to him, Teacher, Moses has told us, If a man die without sons, let his brother take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers; the first married and died, and because he had no sons, he left his wife to his brother.²⁶ Likewise the second, also the third, up to the seventh.²⁷ And after them all the woman also died.²⁸ Therefore at the resurrection, to which of these seven will she be a wife? for they all married her.²⁹ Jesus answered, and said to them, You err, because you do not understand the scriptures nor the power of God.³⁰ For at the resurrection of the dead, they neither marry women, nor are women given to men in marriage, but they are like the angels of God in heaven.³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, saying,³² I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? And yet God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.³³ And when the people heard it, they were amazed at his teaching.

³⁴ But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.³⁵ And one of them who knew the law, asked him, testing him,³⁶ Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?³⁷ Jesus said to him, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your power, and with all your mind.³⁸ This is the greatest and the first commandment.³⁹ And the second is like to it, Love your neighbor as yourself.⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang the law and the prophets.

⁴¹ While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,⁴² And he said, What do you say concerning the Christ? whose son is he? They said to him, son of David.⁴³ He said to them, How is it then that David through the Spirit calls him Lord? For he said,⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.⁴⁵ If David then calls him Lord, how can he be his son?⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him, and from that day no man dared to question him.