The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.
13“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax22:17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens to Caesar or not?”
18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21“Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
Marriage at the Resurrection
23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’22:32 Exodus 3:6? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Greatest Commandment
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’22:37 Deut. 6:5 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’22:39 Lev. 19:18 40All the Law and the Prophets hang 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, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
44“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.” ’22:44 Psalm 110:1
45If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” 46No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
王宴客的比喻
1耶稣又用比喻对他们说： 2“天国就像一个王为儿子筹备婚宴。 3他派奴仆去请受邀的客人，可是客人都不肯来。 4王再派其他奴仆去，说，‘去告诉被邀请的人，我的宴席已经备好，公牛和肥畜都宰了，一切都预备妥当，来赴婚宴吧！’ 5那些人却毫不理会地走了，一个去种田，一个去做买卖， 6其余的竟然抓住王的奴仆，把他们羞辱一番后杀了。 7王大怒，派军队去剿灭凶手，烧毁他们的城。
8“然后，他对奴仆说，‘婚宴已预备好了，只是被邀请的人不配。 9所以你们到街头巷尾，把所有见到的人都请到宴席上来。’ 10奴仆到街上把遇到的人都请了来，好人坏人都有，婚宴大厅里满了客人。
11“王出来会见在座的客人，发现有一个人没有穿礼服， 12就问他，‘朋友，你来这里怎么不穿婚宴的礼服呢？’那人无言以对。 13王便吩咐侍从，‘把他手脚绑起来丢到外面的黑暗里，让他在那里哀哭切齿。’
14“因为被邀请的人多，选上的人少。”
以纳税问题刁难耶稣
15那时，法利赛人出去策划怎样从耶稣的话里找把柄陷害祂。 16他们派了自己的门徒跟希律党人一同去问耶稣：“老师，我们知道你诚实无伪，按真理传上帝的道，不徇情面，因为你不以貌取人。 17那么请告诉我们，你认为向凯撒纳税对不对呢？”
18耶稣看出了他们的恶意，就说：“你们这些伪君子，为什么试探我呢？ 19拿一个纳税用的钱币来给我看。”他们就拿给祂一个银币。
20耶稣问他们：“上面刻的是谁的像和名号？”
21他们说：“凯撒的。”
耶稣说：“那么，属于凯撒的东西应该给凯撒，属于上帝的东西应该给上帝。” 22他们听了很惊奇，只好离开祂走了。
论复活
23同一天，不相信死人会复活的撒都该人也来问耶稣， 24说：“老师，摩西说，‘如果一个人死了，没有儿女，只留下妻子，他的兄弟就当娶嫂嫂，替哥哥传宗接代。’ 25从前，我们这里有弟兄七人，老大结了婚，没有孩子就死了，把妻子留给了弟弟。 26二弟、三弟一直到七弟都相继娶了嫂嫂。 27最后，那女人也死了。 28那么，到复活的时候，她将是谁的妻子呢？因为他们都娶过她。”
29耶稣说：“你们弄错了。你们不明白圣经，也不知道上帝的能力。 30因为到复活的时候，人不娶也不嫁，就像天上的天使一样。
31“关于死人复活的事，你们没有读过上帝对你们说过的话吗？ 32祂说，‘我是亚伯拉罕的上帝，以撒的上帝，雅各的上帝。’22:32 出埃及记3:6。上帝不是死人的上帝，而是活人的上帝。” 33众人听到祂的教导都很惊奇。
最大的诫命
34法利赛人听见耶稣使撒都该人无言以对，就聚集在一起。 35其中有位律法专家试探耶稣说： 36“老师，请问律法中哪一条诫命最重要呢？”
37耶稣回答说：“‘你要全心、全情、全意爱主你的上帝’22:37 申命记6:5。， 38这是第一条也是最重要的诫命。 39第二条也相似，就是‘要爱邻如己’22:39 利未记19:18。。 40律法和先知的全部教导都以这两条诫命为基础。”
基督的身份
41耶稣趁着法利赛人聚在那里，就问他们： 42“你们对基督有何看法？祂是谁的后裔？”他们答道：“大卫的后裔。”
43耶稣说：“那么，为什么大卫受圣灵感动，称祂为主呢？大卫曾说，
44“‘主对我主说，
你坐在我的右边，
等我把你的仇敌放在你脚下。’22:44 诗篇110:1。
45既然大卫称基督为主，基督又怎么会是大卫的后裔呢？” 46没人能回答耶稣的问题。此后，再没人敢用问题刁难耶稣。
