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22:1  And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
22:2  “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
22:3  and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
22:4  Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’
22:5  But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
22:6  And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
22:7  But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
22:8  Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
22:9  Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
22:10  So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
22:11  “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
22:12  So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
22:13  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
22:14  “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
22:15  Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
22:16  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; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.
22:17  Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
22:18  But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?
22:19  Show Me the tax money.” So they brought Him a denarius.
22:20  And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
22:21  They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
22:22  When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
22:23  The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
22:24  saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
22:25  Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
22:26  Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
22:27  Last of all the woman died also.
22:28  Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
22:29  Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
22:30  For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
22:31  But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
22:32  ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
22:33  And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
22:34  But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
22:35  Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
22:36  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
22:37  Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
22:38  This is the first and great commandment.
22:39  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
22:40  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
22:41  While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
22:42  saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
22:43  He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
22:44  ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
22:45  If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
22:46  And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.