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1Again, Jesus spoke them in parables, saying,
2“The Empire of Heaven is like a human king, who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
3He sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding banquet, but they were unwilling to come.
4Then he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Y’all tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Y’all come to the wedding feast!”’
5But they paid no attention and went away, one to their farm, another to his business.
6The rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
7“The king was enraged! He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and burn down their city.
8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.
9So y’all go to main streets and invite anyone y’all find to the wedding banquet.’
10Those servants went out into the streets and gathered together as many as they could find, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t dressed in wedding clothing.
12He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothing?’ The man was speechless.
13Then the king said to the deacons, ‘Y’all bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
14For many are called, but few chosen.”
15Then the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might trap Jesus in his words.
16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the way of God in truth. You are not concerned about anyone because you don’t focus on the face of humans.
17Tell us then, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
18But Jesus, perceiving their evil intentions, said, “Hypocrites! Why are y’all trying to trap me?
19Y’all show me the coin used for the tax.”
They brought him a denarius.
20He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
Then he said to them, “So then y’all are to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22When they heard this, they marveled. So they left him and went away.
23On the same day the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him to ask a question.
24They said, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having any children, his brother must marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’
25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
26The same thing happened to the second, and the third, all the way to the seventh brother.
27Last of all, the woman died.
28Now then, in the resurrection whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”
29But Jesus answered them, “Y’all are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
30For in the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t y’all read what God said to you*,
32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ Hᴇ is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”[#Exodus 3:6]
33When the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
34When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with a question:
36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37Jesus replied to him, “‘You are to love the Lord [YHWH] your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[#Deuteronomy 6:5]
38This is the first and great commandment.
39The second is like it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’[#Leviticus 19:18]
40The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
42“What do y’all think about the Christ? Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “The son of David.”
43He said to them, “Then how does David, by the Spirit, call him ‘Lord’? He says,
44‘The Lord [YHWH] said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
45“If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
46No one was able to answer him a word. And from that day forward, no one dared to ask him any more questions.