New Living Translation NLT
Wycliffe WYC
1 Jesus also told them other parables. He said,
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And Jesus answered, and spake again in parables to them, and said,
2 “The Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding feast for his son.
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The kingdom of heavens is made like to a king that made weddings to his son. [The kingdom of heavens is like to a man king that made weddings to his son.]
3 When the banquet was ready, he sent his servants to notify those who were invited. But they all refused to come!
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And he sent his servants to call men that were bidden to the weddings, and they would not come.
4 “So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘The feast has been prepared. The bulls and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!’
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Again he sent other servants, and said [saying], Say to the men that be bidden to the feast, Lo! I have made ready my meat, my bulls and my volatiles be slain [my bulls and my volatiles, or my fat beasts, be slain], and all things be ready; come ye to the weddings.
5 But the guests he had invited ignored them and went their own way, one to his farm, another to his business.
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But they despised, and went forth, one into his town, another to his merchandise. [Soothly they despised, or reckoned not, and they went away, one into his vineyard, forsooth another to his merchandise.]
6 Others seized his messengers and insulted them and killed them.
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But [the] others held his servants, and tormented them, and slew [them].
7 “The king was furious, and he sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their town.
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But the king, when he had heard, was wroth; and he sent his hosts, and destroyed those man-quellers, and burnt their city.
8 And he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honor.
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Then he said to his servants [Then he saith to his servants], The weddings be ready, but they that were called to the feast, were not worthy.
9 Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see.’
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Therefore go ye into the ends of ways, and whomever ye find, call ye to the weddings. [Therefore go ye to the outgoings, or ends, of ways, and whomever ye shall find, call to the weddings.]
10 So the servants brought in everyone they could find, good and bad alike, and the banquet hall was filled with guests.
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And his servants went out into the ways, and gathered together all that they found, good and evil; and the bridal [and the weddings] was full-filled with men sitting at the meat.
11 “But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.
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And the king entered, to see men sitting at the meat; and he saw there a man not clothed with bride clothes [and he saw there a man not clothed with bridal clothes].
12 ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how is it that you are here without wedding clothes?’ But the man had no reply.
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And he said to him, Friend, how enteredest thou hither without bride clothes [And he saith to him, Friend, how enteredest thou hither, not having bride clothes]? And he was dumb.
13 Then the king said to his aides, ‘Bind his hands and feet and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Then the king bade his ministers, Bind him both hands and feet, and send ye him into outer-more darknesses; there shall be weeping and grinding of teeth. [Then the king said to the ministers, His hands and feet bound, send ye him into utter-more darknesses; there shall be weeping and beating together of teeth.]
14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
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For many be called, but few be chosen.
15 Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested.
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Then Pharisees went away, and took a counsel to take Jesus in word. [Then Pharisees, going away, took a counsel, that they should take him in word.]
16 They sent some of their disciples, along with the supporters of Herod, to meet with him. “Teacher,” they said, “we know how honest you are. You teach the way of God truthfully. You are impartial and don’t play favorites.
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And they send to him their disciples, with Herodians, and said [saying], Master, we know, that thou art soothfast, and thou teachest in truth the way of God, and thou carest not of any man [and there is no care, or charge, to thee of any man], for thou beholdest not the person of men.
17 Now tell us what you think about this: Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
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Therefore say to us, what seemeth to thee. Is it leaveful that tribute be given to the emperor, either nay [+Is it leaveful that tribute be given to Caesar, rent, or nay]?
18 But Jesus knew their evil motives. “You hypocrites!” he said. “Why are you trying to trap me?
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And when Jesus had known the wickedness of them, he said, Hypocrites, what tempt ye me?
19 Here, show me the coin used for the tax.” When they handed him a Roman coin,
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Show ye to me the print of the money. And they brought to him a penny.
20 he asked, “Whose picture and title are stamped on it?”
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And Jesus said to them [And Jesus saith to them], Whose is this image, and the writing above?
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied. “Well, then,” he said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”
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They say to him, The emperor's. Then he said to them, Therefore yield ye to the emperor those things that be the emperor's, and to God those things that be of God. [+They say to him, Of Caesar. Then he saith to them, Therefore yield ye to Caesar those things that be Caesar's/those things that be of Caesar, and to God those things that be of God.]
22 His reply amazed them, and they went away.
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And they heard, and wondered; and they left him, and went away. [And they hearing wondered; and, him left, they went away.]
23 That same day Jesus was approached by some Sadducees—religious leaders who say there is no resurrection from the dead. They posed this question:
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In that day Sadducees, that say there is no rising again to life [that say there is no rising again], came to him, and asked him,
24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will carry on the brother’s name.’
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and said, Master, Moses said, if any man is dead [saying, Master, Moses said, if any man be dead], not having a son, that his brother wed his wife, and raise seed to his brother.
25 Well, suppose there were seven brothers. The oldest one married and then died without children, so his brother married the widow.
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And there were seven brethren to us; and the first wedded a wife, and is dead. And he had no seed, and left his wife to his brother; [Forsooth seven brethren were with us; and the first, a wife wedded, is dead. And he not having seed, left his wife to his brother;]
26 But the second brother also died, and the third brother married her. This continued with all seven of them.
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also the second, and the third, till to the seventh.
27 Last of all, the woman also died.
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But the last of all, [also] the woman is dead.
28 So tell us, whose wife will she be in the resurrection? For all seven were married to her.”
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Also in the rising again to life [Therefore in the rising again], whose wife of the seven shall she be? for all had her.
29 Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.
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Jesus answered, and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the virtue of God.
30 For when the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In this respect they will be like the angels in heaven.
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For in the rising again to life, neither they shall wed, neither shall be wedded [For in the rising again, neither they wed, neither be wedded]; but they be as the angels of God in heaven.
31 “But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead—haven’t you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said,
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And of the rising again of dead men, have ye not read, that [it] is said of the Lord, that saith to you [that it is said of the Lord, saying to you],
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ So he is the God of the living, not the dead.”
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I am God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob? he is not God of dead men, but of living men.
33 When the crowds heard him, they were astounded at his teaching.
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And the people hearing [And the companies hearing], wondered on his teaching.
34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again.
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And the Pharisees heard that he had put silence to Sadducees, and came together.
35 One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question:
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And one of them, a teacher of the law, asked Jesus, and tempted him, [And one of them, a teacher of the law, asked Jesus, tempting him,]
36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”
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Master, which is a great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’
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Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love thy Lord God, of all thine heart, and in all thy soul, and in all thy mind [Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, of all thine heart, and of all thy soul, and in all thy mind].
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
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This is the first and the most commandment.
39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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And the second is like to this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
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In these two commandments hangeth all the law and the prophets.
41 Then, surrounded by the Pharisees, Jesus asked them a question:
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And when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “He is the son of David.”
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and said [saying], What seemeth to you of Christ, whose son is he? They say to him, Of David.
43 Jesus responded, “Then why does David, speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit, call the Messiah ‘my Lord’? For David said,
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He saith to them, How then David in spirit calleth him Lord, and saith [saying],
44 ‘The said to my Lord, Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies beneath your feet.’
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The Lord said to my Lord, Sit [thou] on my right half, till I put thine enemies a stool of thy feet?
45 Since David called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ how can the Messiah be his son?”
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Then if David calleth him Lord, how is he his son?
46 No one could answer him. And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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And no man might answer a word to him, neither any man was hardy from that day, to ask him more.