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| | Mat 22:1 | Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
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| | Mat 22:2 | "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
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| | Mat 22:3 | and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
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| | Mat 22:4 | Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'
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| | Mat 22:5 | But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
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| | Mat 22:6 | and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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| | Mat 22:7 | When the king heard that, he was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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| | Mat 22:8 | "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.
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| | Mat 22:9 | Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
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| | Mat 22:10 | Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
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| | Mat 22:11 | But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
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| | Mat 22:12 | and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless.
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| | Mat 22:13 | Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
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| | Mat 22:14 | For many are called, but few chosen."
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| | Mat 22:15 | Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
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| | Mat 22:16 | They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.
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| | Mat 22:17 | Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
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| | Mat 22:18 | But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
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| | Mat 22:19 | Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius.
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| | Mat 22:20 | He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
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| | Mat 22:21 | They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
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| | Mat 22:22 | When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
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| | Mat 22:23 | On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
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| | Mat 22:24 | saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'
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| | Mat 22:25 | Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
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| | Mat 22:26 | In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
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| | Mat 22:27 | After them all, the woman died.
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| | Mat 22:28 | In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."
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| | Mat 22:29 | But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
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| | Mat 22:30 | For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
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| | Mat 22:31 | But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
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| | Mat 22:32 | 'I am the God of Abraham, and 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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| | Mat 22:33 | When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
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| | Mat 22:34 | But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
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| | Mat 22:35 | One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
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| | Mat 22:36 | "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
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| | Mat 22:37 | Jesus 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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| | Mat 22:38 | This is the first and great commandment.
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| | Mat 22:39 | A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
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| | Mat 22:40 | The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
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| | Mat 22:41 | Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
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| | Mat 22:42 | saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David."
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| | Mat 22:43 | He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
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| | Mat 22:44 | 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'
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| | Mat 22:45 | "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
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| | Mat 22:46 | No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
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