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Matthew 22

The Message Bible MSG

1 Jesus responded by telling still more stories.

2 "God's kingdom," he said, "is like a king who threw a wedding banquet for his son.

3 He sent out servants to call in all the invited guests. And they wouldn't come!

4 "He sent out another round of servants, instructing them to tell the guests, 'Look, everything is on the table, the prime rib is ready for carving. Come to the feast!'

5 "They only shrugged their shoulders and went off, one to weed his garden, another to work in his shop.

6 The rest, with nothing better to do, beat up on the messengers and then killed them.

7 The king was outraged and sent his soldiers to destroy those thugs and level their city.

8 "Then he told his servants, 'We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren't up to it.

9 Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet.'

10 The servants went out on the streets and rounded up everyone they laid eyes on, good and bad, regardless. And so the banquet was on - every place filled.

11 "When the king entered and looked over the scene, he spotted a man who wasn't properly dressed.

12 He said to him, 'Friend, how dare you come in here looking like that!' The man was speechless.

13 Then the king told his servants, 'Get him out of here - fast. Tie him up and ship him to hell. And make sure he doesn't get back in.'

14 "That's what I mean when I say, 'Many get invited; only a few make it.'"

15 That's when the Pharisees plotted a way to trap him into saying something damaging.

16 They sent their disciples, with a few of Herod's followers mixed in, to ask, "Teacher, we know you have integrity, teach the way of God accurately, are indifferent to popular opinion, and don't pander to your students.

17 So tell us honestly: Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

18 Jesus knew they were up to no good. He said, "Why are you playing these games with me? Why are you trying to trap me?

19 Do you have a coin? Let me see it." They handed him a silver piece.

20 "This engraving - who does it look like? And whose name is on it?"

21 They said, "Caesar." "Then give Caesar what is his, and give God what is his."

22 The Pharisees were speechless. They went off shaking their heads.

23 That same day, Sadducees approached him. This is the party that denies any possibility of resurrection.

24 They asked, "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies childless, his brother is obligated to marry his widow and get her with child.

25 Here's a case where there were seven brothers. The first brother married and died, leaving no child, and his wife passed to his brother.

26 The second brother also left her childless, then the third - and on and on, all seven.

27 Eventually the wife died.

28 Now here's our question: At the resurrection, whose wife is she? She was a wife to each of them."

29 Jesus answered, "You're off base on two counts: You don't know your Bibles, and you don't know how God works.

30 At the resurrection we're beyond marriage. As with the angels, all our ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God.

31 And regarding your speculation on whether the dead are raised or not, don't you read your Bibles? The grammar is clear: God says,

32 'I am - not was - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.' The living God defines himself not as the God of dead men, but of the living."

33 Hearing this exchange the crowd was much impressed.

34 When the Pharisees heard how he had bested the Sadducees, they gathered their forces for an assault.

35 One of their religion scholars spoke for them, posing a question they hoped would show him up:

36 "Teacher, which command in God's Law is the most important?"

37 Jesus said, "'Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.'

38 This is the most important, the first on any list.

39 But there is a second to set alongside it: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.'

40 These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them."

41 As the Pharisees were regrouping, Jesus caught them off balance with his own test question:

42 "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "David's son."

43 Jesus replied, "Well, if the Christ is David's son, how do you explain that David, under inspiration, named Christ his 'Master'?

44 God said to my Master, "Sit here at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."

45 "Now if David calls him 'Master,' how can he at the same time be his son?"

46 That stumped them, literalists that they were. Unwilling to risk losing face again in one of these public verbal exchanges, they quit asking questions for good.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 et respondens Iesus dixit iterum in parabolis eis dicens

2 simile factum est regnum caelorum homini regi qui fecit nuptias filio suo

3 et misit servos suos vocare invitatos ad nuptias et nolebant venire

4 iterum misit alios servos dicens dicite invitatis ecce prandium meum paravi tauri mei et altilia occisa et omnia parata venite ad nuptias

5 illi autem neglexerunt et abierunt alius in villam suam alius vero ad negotiationem suam

6 reliqui vero tenuerunt servos eius et contumelia adfectos occiderunt

7 rex autem cum audisset iratus est et missis exercitibus suis perdidit homicidas illos et civitatem illorum succendit

8 tunc ait servis suis nuptiae quidem paratae sunt sed qui invitati erant non fuerunt digni

9 ite ergo ad exitus viarum et quoscumque inveneritis vocate ad nuptias

10 et egressi servi eius in vias congregaverunt omnes quos invenerunt malos et bonos et impletae sunt nuptiae discumbentium

11 intravit autem rex ut videret discumbentes et vidit ibi hominem non vestitum veste nuptiali

12 et ait illi amice quomodo huc intrasti non habens vestem nuptialem at ille obmutuit

13 tunc dixit rex ministris ligatis pedibus eius et manibus mittite eum in tenebras exteriores ibi erit fletus et stridor dentium

14 multi autem sunt vocati pauci vero electi

15 tunc abeuntes Pharisaei consilium inierunt ut caperent eum in sermone

16 et mittunt ei discipulos suos cum Herodianis dicentes magister scimus quia verax es et viam Dei in veritate doces et non est tibi cura de aliquo non enim respicis personam hominum

17 dic ergo nobis quid tibi videatur licet censum dare Caesari an non

18 cognita autem Iesus nequitia eorum ait quid me temptatis hypocritae

19 ostendite mihi nomisma census at illi obtulerunt ei denarium

20 et ait illis Iesus cuius est imago haec et suprascriptio

21 dicunt ei Caesaris tunc ait illis reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris Caesari et quae sunt Dei Deo

22 et audientes mirati sunt et relicto eo abierunt

23 in illo die accesserunt ad eum Sadducaei qui dicunt non esse resurrectionem et interrogaverunt eum

24 dicentes magister Moses dixit si quis mortuus fuerit non habens filium ut ducat frater eius uxorem illius et suscitet semen fratri suo

25 erant autem apud nos septem fratres et primus uxore ducta defunctus est et non habens semen reliquit uxorem suam fratri suo

26 similiter secundus et tertius usque ad septimum

27 novissime autem omnium et mulier defuncta est

28 in resurrectione ergo cuius erit de septem uxor omnes enim habuerunt eam

29 respondens autem Iesus ait illis erratis nescientes scripturas neque virtutem Dei

30 in resurrectione enim neque nubent neque nubentur sed sunt sicut angeli Dei in caelo

31 de resurrectione autem mortuorum non legistis quod dictum est a Deo dicente vobis

32 ego sum Deus Abraham et Deus Isaac et Deus Iacob non est Deus mortuorum sed viventium

33 et audientes turbae mirabantur in doctrina eius

34 Pharisaei autem audientes quod silentium inposuisset Sadducaeis convenerunt in unum

35 et interrogavit eum unus ex eis legis doctor temptans eum

36 magister quod est mandatum magnum in lege

37 ait illi Iesus diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo et in tota anima tua et in tota mente tua

38 hoc est maximum et primum mandatum

39 secundum autem simile est huic diliges proximum tuum sicut te ipsum

40 in his duobus mandatis universa lex pendet et prophetae

41 congregatis autem Pharisaeis interrogavit eos Iesus

42 dicens quid vobis videtur de Christo cuius filius est dicunt ei David

43 ait illis quomodo ergo David in spiritu vocat eum Dominum dicens

44 dixit Dominus Domino meo sede a dextris meis donec ponam inimicos tuos scabillum pedum tuorum

45 si ergo David vocat eum Dominum quomodo filius eius est

46 et nemo poterat respondere ei verbum neque ausus fuit quisquam ex illa die eum amplius interrogare