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And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
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“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son,
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and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
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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.” ’
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But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.
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And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
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But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
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Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
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Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.’
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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.
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“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.
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So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
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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.’
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“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
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Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk.
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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.
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Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
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But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?
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Show Me the tax money.” So they brought Him a denarius.
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And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
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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.”
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When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
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The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
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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.
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Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
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Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
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Last of all the woman died also.
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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
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Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
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‘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.”
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And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
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But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
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Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
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“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
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Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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This is the first and great commandment.
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And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
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On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
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While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
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saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
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He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
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‘The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’?
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If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
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And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.
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