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Chapter 22
Parable of the wedding feast
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Jesus began to speak to them in parables once again,
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‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son’s wedding.
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He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come.
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Next he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.”
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But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business,
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and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them.
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The king was furious. He despatched his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town.
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Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy,
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go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding”.
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So these servants went out on to the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment,
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and said to him, “How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?” And the man was silent.
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Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth”.
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For many are called, but few are chosen.’
On tribute to Caesar
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Then the Pharisees went away to work out between them how to trap him in what he said.
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And they sent their disciples to him, together with the Herodians,[*a] to say, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in an honest way, and that you are not afraid of anyone, because a man’s rank means nothing to you.
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Tell us your opinion, then. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not?’
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But Jesus was aware of their malice and replied, ‘You hypocrites! Why do you set this trap for me?
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Let me see the money you pay the tax with.’ They handed him a denarius,
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and he said, ‘Whose head is this? Whose name?’
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‘Caesar’s’ they replied. He then said to them, ‘Very well, give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God’.
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This reply took them by surprise, and they left him alone and went away.
The resurrection of the dead
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That day some Sadducees – who deny that there is a resurrection – approached him and they put this question to him,
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‘Master, Moses said that if a man dies childless, his brother is to marry the widow, his sister-in-law to raise children for his brother.
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Now we had a case involving seven brothers; the first married and then died without children, leaving his wife to his brother;
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the same thing happened with the second and third and so on to the seventh,
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and then last of all the woman herself died.
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Now at the resurrection to which of those seven will she be wife, since she had been married to them all?’
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Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
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For at the resurrection men and women do not marry; no, they are like the angels in heaven.
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And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God himself said to you:
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I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?[*b] God is God, not of the dead, but of the living.’
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And his teaching made a deep impression on the people who heard it.
The greatest commandment of all
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But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together
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and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question,
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‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’
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Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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This is the greatest and the first commandment.
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The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
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On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also.’
Christ not only son but also Lord of David
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While the Pharisees were gathered round, Jesus put to them this question,
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‘What is your opinion about the Christ? Whose son is he?’ ‘David’s’ they told him.
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‘Then how is it’ he said ‘that David, moved by the Spirit, calls him Lord, where he says:
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The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand and I will put your enemies under your feet?[*c]
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‘If David can call him Lord, then how can he be his son?’
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Not one could think of anything to say in reply, and from that day no one dared to ask him any further questions.
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