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Matthew
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Again Jesus spoke to them in figurative language.
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Matthew
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"The Kingdom of the Heavens," He said, "may be compared to a king who celebrated the marriage of his son,
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and sent his servants to call the invited guests to the wedding, but they were unwilling to come.
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"Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "'My breakfast is now ready," he said, 'my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.'
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"They however gave no heed, but went, one to his home in the country, another to his business;
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and the rest seized the king's servants, maltreated them, and murdered them.
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So the king's anger was stirred, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.
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Then he said to his servants, "'The wedding banquet is ready, but those who were invited were unworthy of it.
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Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet invite to the wedding.'
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"So they went out into the roads and gathered together all they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall was filled with guests.
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Matthew
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"Now the king came in to see the guests; and among them he discovered one who was not wearing a wedding-robe.
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"'My friend,' he said, 'how is it that you came in here without a wedding robe?'
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"The man stood speechless. Then the king said to the servants, "'Bind him hand and foot and fling him into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.'
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Matthew
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Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might entrap Him in His conversation.
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Matthew
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So they sent to Him their disciples together with the Herodians; who said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you faithfully teach God's truth; and that no fear of man misleads you, for you are not biased by men's wealth or rank.
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Matthew
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Give us your judgement therefore: is it allowable for us to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?"
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Perceiving their wickedness, Jesus replied, "Why are you hypocrites trying to ensnare me?
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Matthew
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Show me the tribute coin." And they brought Him a shilling.
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"Whose likeness and inscription," He asked, "is this?"
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"Caesar's," they replied. "Pay therefore," He rejoined, "what is Caesar's to Caesar; and what is God's to God."
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They heard this, and were astonished; then left Him, and went their way.
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On the same day a party of Sadducees came to Him, contending that there is no resurrection. And they put this case to Him.
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"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'
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Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.
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So also did the second and the third, down to the seventh,
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till the woman also died, after surviving them all.
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At the Resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? for they all married her."
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The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
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For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.
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But as to the Resurrection of the dead, have you never read what God says to you,
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Matthew
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I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead, but of living men."
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Matthew
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All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.
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Matthew
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Now the Pharisees came up when they heard that He had silenced the Sadducees,
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and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,
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"Teacher, which is the greatest Commandment in the Law?"
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"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'
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And the second is similar to it: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'
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The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."
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Matthew
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While the Pharisees were still assembled there, Jesus put a question to them.
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Matthew
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"What think you about the Christ," He said, "whose son is He?" "David's," they replied.
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Matthew
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"How then," He asked, "does David, taught by the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says,
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Matthew
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"'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?
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"If therefore David calls Him Lord, how can He be his son?"
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No one could say a word in reply, nor from that day did any one venture again to put a question to Him.