bible_study/Bible/Matthew/Matt 22.md

## Parable of the Wedding Feast 

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And Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, 

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"The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. 

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And he sent out his slaves to call those who had been called to the wedding feast, and they were unwilling to come. 

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Again he sent out other slaves saying, 'Tell those who have been called, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fattened livestock are _all_ butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast."' 

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But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business, 

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and the rest seized his slaves and mistreated them and killed them. 

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But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire. 

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Then he *said to his slaves, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were called were not worthy. 

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Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find _there_, call to the wedding feast.' 

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And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests. 

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"But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, 

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and he *said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?' And the man was speechless. 

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Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 

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For many are called, but few _are_ chosen." 

## Taxes to Caesar 

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Then the Pharisees went and took counsel together about how they might trap Him in what He said. 

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And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any. 

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Therefore, tell us, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a tax to Caesar, or not?" 

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But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, **"Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?** 

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Show Me the coin _used_ for the tax." And they brought Him a denarius. 

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And He *said to them, **"Whose likeness and inscription is this?"** 

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They *said to Him, "Caesar's." Then He *said to them, **"Therefore, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."** 

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And hearing _this_, they marveled, and leaving Him, they went away. 

## The Sadducees and the Resurrection 

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On that day _some_ Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to Jesus and asked Him a question, 

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saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother as next of kin shall marry his wife and raise up a seed for his brother.' 

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Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no seed, he left his wife to his brother; 

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so also the second, and the third, down to the seventh. 

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And last of all, the woman died. 

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In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had _married_ her." 

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But Jesus answered and said to them, **"You are mistaken, not understanding 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 in heaven. 

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But regarding 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, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." 

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And when the crowds heard _this_, they were astonished at His teaching. 

## The Foremost Commandment 

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But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 

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And one of them, a scholar of the Law, asked _Him_ a question, testing Him, 

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"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 

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And He said to him, **"'You shall love the** Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 

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This is the great and foremost 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 the whole Law and the Prophets." 

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Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 

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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, **"Then how does David in the Spirit call Him 'Lord,' saying,** 

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'The Lord said to my Lord, **"Sit at My right hand**, **Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet**"'? 

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Therefore, if David calls Him 'Lord,' how is He his son?" 

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And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question.