Matthew 22
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The Story of the Wedding Dinner
1Jesus told them more stories. He said, 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his slaves to the guests he’d invited to tell them to come, but they refused.
4“Then he sent out some more slaves. He said, ‘Tell those who were invited that I’ve prepared my dinner. I’ve killed the oxen and the fattened cattle. Everything is ready, so come to the wedding banquet.’
5“But the people paid no attention. One went off to his field and another went to his business. 6The rest grabbed his slaves, treated them badly, and killed them. 7This made the king so angry that he sent his army to destroy those murderers and burn down their city.
8“Then the king said to his slaves, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but the people I invited didn’t deserve to come. 9Go to the street corners and invite anyone you can find to come to the dinner.’ 10So the slaves went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good. Soon the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11“When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who wasn’t wearing wedding clothes. 12‘Friend,’ he said, ‘how’d you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no excuses.
13“Then the king told his slaves, ‘Tie him up by his hands and feet and throw him outside into the darkness, where people will weep and grind their teeth.’
14“Many are invited, but few are chosen.”
Is It Right to Pay the Royal Tax to Caesar?
15The Pharisees went out and made a plan to trap Jesus with his own words. 16They sent their disciples to him with some of the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you’re a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don’t let others influence what you do or say, no matter how important they are. 17Tell us, then, what do you think? According to the law of Moses, should we pay the royal tax to Caesar?”
18But Jesus knew they had bad motives for asking. He said, “You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin people use for paying the tax.” They brought him a silver coin, and he asked them, 20“Whose picture is on this coin? And whose name and titles?”
21“Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”
22When they heard this, they were amazed. They left him and went away.
Marriage After the Dead Rise
23That same day the Sadducees, who don’t believe that people rise from the dead, came to Jesus with a question. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man marries but dies without having children, his brother has to marry the widow so she can have children to carry on her late husband’s name. 25There were seven brothers among us. The first one got married, but he died without having any children, so the next brother married his widow. 26But then the same thing happened to him, and to the third brother, right on down to the seventh brother. 27Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, when the dead rise, whose wife will she be? All seven brothers were married to her.”
29Jesus replied, “You’re going wrong here because you don’t know the Scriptures and you don’t know the power of God. 30When the dead rise, people won’t get married, and parents won’t arrange marriages for their children. Everyone will be like the angels in heaven. 31But as for whether people rise from the dead, haven’t you read what God said to you? 32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He isn’t the God of the dead; he’s the God of the living.”
33When the crowds heard this, they were amazed by what Jesus taught.
The Most Important Commandment
34The Pharisees heard that the Sadducees hadn’t able to answer Jesus. So they got together, 35and one of them, an authority on the law, tested Jesus with a question. 36“Teacher,” he asked, “which commandment in the Law is the greatest?”
37Jesus answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38That is the first and most important commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ 40Everything written in the Law and the Prophets is based on these two commandments.”
Whose Son Is the Messiah?
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,” they replied.
43He said to them, “Then why does David, speaking by the Spirit, call him ‘Lord’? David said,
44“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your control.” ’
45So if David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be David’s son?” 46No one knew how to answer him, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions.
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Matthew 22
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1Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered and spoke to them again in the words of a parable.
2“The Kingdom of heaven is like a king who made a wedding ceremony”
3“He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the wedding ceremony, but they did not wish to come”.
4“He again sent other servants saying: ‘Tell those who are invited, behold I have prepared a feast, I have killed oxen and fowl, and all is ready. Come to the wedding ceremony’”.
5“But they scorned and went away, some into the city and some to their businesses”.
6“Others took his servants, abused them, and killed them”.
7“The king heard this, was angry, sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burnt their house with fire”.
8“Then he said to his servants: ‘The marriage ceremony is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy’”.
9“Now, go out unto the roads and all whom you find invite to the marriage ceremony”.
10“His servants went out unto the ways and assembled all those who were found, good and bad; so the marriage ceremony was filled with those who were eating”.
11“The king entered to see those who were eating and saw there a man who was not clothed in wedding garments”.
12“He said to him: ‘My friend how did you come in here without wedding garments?’ He was silent”.
13“Then the king said to his servants: ‘Bind his hands and feet and cast him to the lower most and lowest hell; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth’”.
14“Many are called but few are chosen.”
15Then the P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] came and took counsel how to trap him in what he said.
16They sent him some of their disciples, with violent men from Herod [heroic] saying: ‘Rabbi, we know that you are faithful, you faithfully study the way of Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God], you fear nothing, and are impartial’.
17‘Tell us your opinion: Is it right to give tribute to Caesar [venerable] or not?’
18Yeshua [God is Salvation] recognized their deceit and said: “Why do you entice me, hypocrites?”
19“Show me a tax coin”. They brought a plain one to him.
20He said to them: “Whose likeness is this and inscription?”
21They said: ‘Caesar [venerable]’s’. Then Yeshua [God is Salvation] said to them: “Return to Caesar [venerable] that which is Caesar [venerable]’s and to Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] that which is Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God]’s”.
22They heard and were amazed. They left him and went away.
23On that day, the Tz’dukim (Sadducees) [followers of the right] and those who deny the resurrection of the dead met him. They asked him
24saying: ‘Rabbi, Moshe [drawn out] surely said to us: “When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, his brother should take his wife to raise up the seed of his brother”.
25‘Behold there were seven brothers among us. The first one took a wife, died without seed and his brother married his wife’.
26‘Likewise the second and third unto the seventh’.
27‘After them the woman died’.
28‘Since she had already belonged to all of them, to which of the seven will she be a wife, in the resurrection?’
29Yeshua [God is Salvation] answered and said to them: “You err and do not understand the Writings or the power of The Mighty One”.
30“In the day of resurrection, men will not take women nor women men, but they will be like the angels of Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] in heaven”.
31“Have you not read concerning the resurrection of the dead that Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] spoke to you saying”:
32“I, Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], am Elohe Avraham [the God of Exalted Father], Elohe Yitz’chak [the God of Laughter], and Elohe Ya’akov [the God if He who grabs onto the heal of]”?. If so He is not Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] of the dead but Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] of the living”
33The crowds heard and were amazed at his wisdom.
34When the P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] saw that the Tz’dukim (Sadducees) [followers of the right] had no answer, they gathered together.
35Then a scribe asked him, tempting him:
36‘Rabbi, tell us which is the greatest commandment in the Torah?’
37He said to him: “Thou shalt love Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] your Elohim (The Many Powered) [The Living Word of God] with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength”.
38“This is the first and great commandment.”
39“The second is like it: “Thou shalt love your neighbour as yourself”
40“Upon these two commandments the whole law hangs and the prophets”
41The P’rushim (Pharisees) [separatists] assembled and Yeshua [God is Salvation] asked them
42saying: “What is your opinion concerning Ha-Moshiach [Messiah] [The Messiah], whose son will he be? They said to him: ‘The son of David [Beloved].’
43He said to them: “How is it that David [Beloved] by Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit [Ruach]) called him saying ‘Adon [Lord - Kurios of the Earth]’”,;
44“as it is written: “Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] said to my Adon [Lord - Kurios of the earth] sit at My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool”
45“If David [Beloved] called him ‘Adon [Lord - Kurios of the Earth]’, how is he his son?”
46They were not able to answer him a word and from then on they feared to ask him anything.
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