The King gives the parable of the wedding feast
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📚And answering Jesus again spoke to them✭ in parables, and said, 2 📚✭“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son. 3 📚✭And he sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they would not come.4 📚“Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited: Now I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened animals have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the marriage.’
5 📚✭“But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his business. 6 📚✭And the rest took his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
7 📚✭“But when the king heard of it, he was angry, and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 📚✭Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. 9 📚Therefore go into the highways, and invite everyone you find to the marriage.’
10 📚“So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together everyone they found, both bad and good.✭ And the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 📚✭And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who was not wearing a wedding garment. 12 📚✭And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 📚✭Then the king said to the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14 📚✭“For many are called, but few are chosen”.
The King and the questions of the Jewish leaders
15 📚✭Then the Pharisees went away and plotted how they could trap him in his talk. 16 📚✭And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth. And you do not show favoritism to anyone, for you do not regard a man's appearance. 17 📚✭So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18 📚✭But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? 19 📚Show me the tax money”. And they brought a silver coin✭ to him. 20 📚And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
21 📚✭They said to him, “Caesar's”. Then he said to them, “Therefore give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's”.
22 📚✭When they heard these words, they were amazed and left him and went away.
23 📚✭The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him, 24 📚saying, “Teacher, Moses said, If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and have offspring for his brother. 25 📚Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first, after marrying a wife, died, and having no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, up to the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman also died. 28 Therefore in the resurrection, of these seven whose wife will she be? For they all had her”.
29 📚✭Jesus answered and said to them, “You blunder, not knowing the Scriptures, or the power of God. 30 📚✭For in the resurrection they do not marry, and are not given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven. 31 📚But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 32 📚I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?✭ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living”.
33 📚✭And when the crowd heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
34 📚But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 📚Then one of them, a lawyer✭, asked him a question to test him, saying, 36 📚✭“Teacher, which is the great 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 great commandment. 39 📚And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbour as yourself. 40 📚All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments”.
41 📚✭While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 📚Saying, “What do you think of Christ?✭ Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “The son of David”.
43 📚✭He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him Lord, saying, 44 📚✭The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? 45 📚✭If David called him Lord, how then is he his son?”
46 📚✭And no one was able to answer him a word. And from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.