1 22:1AND Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables saying, 22:2The kingdom of heaven is like a man, a king, who made a wedding for his son. 22:3And he sent his servants to call the invited to the wedding, and they would not come. 22:4Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell the invited, Behold, I have prepared my supper, my oxen and fatted creatures are killed, and all things are ready; come to the wedding. 22:5But they neglected it, and went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise; 22:6and the rest took his servants and treated them injuriously, and killed them. 22:7And the king was angry, and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.
2 22:8Then he said to his servants, The wedding indeed is ready, but the invited were not worthy. 22:9Go, therefore, to the crossings of the ways, and invite all you find to the wedding. 22:10And those servants went out into the highways, and collected all whom they found, both bad and good, and the wedding was furnished with guests.
3 22:11And the king coming in to see the guests observed there a man who had not on a wedding garment, 22:12and said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 22:13Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and cast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 22:14For many are called, but few chosen.
4 22:15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel to ensnare him in his words. 22:16And 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 care not for any man; for you regard not the face of men. 22:17Tell us, therefore, what you think; is it right to pay tribute to Cæsar or not? 22:18Jesus knowing their wickedness, said, Why do you hypocrites try me? 22:19Show me the tribute money. And they brought him a denarius [14 cents]. 22:20And he said to them, Whose is this image and this inscription? 22:21They said to him, Cæsar's. Then he said to them, Give therefore Cæsar's dues to Cæsar, and God's to God. 22:22And hearing, they wondered, and went away and left him.
5 22:23On that day the Sadducees came to him, who say there is no resurrection, and asked him, 22:24saying, Teacher, Moses said, If any one dies having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up children for his brother. 22:25Now there were with us seven brothers; and the first married, and died; and having no children he left his wife to his brother; 22:26in like manner also the second, and third, till the seventh; 22:27last of all the woman died also. 22:28In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? for they all had her. 22:29And Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. 22:30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married, but are as angels in heaven. 22:31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, 22:32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of the dead, but of the living. 22:33And the multitudes who heard were astonished at his teaching.
6 22:34And the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, were assembled together, 22:35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him, to try him, 22:36Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law? 22:37And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your mind. 22:38This is the great and first commandment. 22:39And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 22:40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
7 22:41And the Pharisees being assembled together, Jesus asked them, 22:42saying, What do you think of the Christ? whose son is he? They said to him, David's. 22:43He said to them, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying, 22:44The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool? 22:45If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? 22:46And no one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any one after that day to question him farther.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHRIST DENOUNCING THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES.
1 23:1THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes and his disciples, 23:2saying, The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 23:3All things therefore which they tell you, do and keep. But do not their works. For they say and do not, 23:4but bind heavy burdens and put them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger. 23:5And they do all their works to be seen by men. For they make broad their prayer fillets, and enlarge the fringes, 23:6and love the first tables at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues, 23:7and salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi. 23:8But do not you be called Rabbi; For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers. 23:9And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father. 23:10Neither be called leaders, for one is your leader, the Christ. 23:11But the greatest of you shall be your servant, 23:12and whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
2 23:13But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you enter not into it, neither do you suffer those entering to go in. 23:15Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. 23:16Woe to you blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound. 23:17Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? 23:18If a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if he swears by the gift which is on it, he is bound. 23:19Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? 23:20He then that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it; 23:21and he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that inhabits it; 23:22and he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits on it.
3 23:23Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others. 23:24Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel. 23:25Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of plunder and excess. 23:26Blind Pharisee! cleanse first that which is in the cup and platter, that its outside may be clean also. 23:27Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which appear fair without, but within are full of the bones of the dead and of all impurity. 23:28So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. 23:29Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, 23:30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 23:31So that you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets; 23:32and you have filled up the measure of your fathers. 23:33Serpents, offspring of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?
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