Murdock - Matthew - 22

22:1  And Jesus answered again by similitudes, and said:

22:2  The kingdom of heaven is like to a royal person, who made a feast for his son.

22:3  And he sent his servants to call those that had been invited, to the feast: and they would not come.

22:4  And again he sent other servants, and said: Tell those invited, Behold, my entertainment is prepared, my oxen and my fatlings are slain, and every thing is prepared; come ye to the feast.

22:5  But they showed contempt, and went away, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise;

22:6  and the rest seized his servants, and abused them, and slew them.

22:7  And when the king heard of it, he was angry; and he sent his military forces, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

22:8  Then said he to his servants, The feast is prepared, but they who were invited were unworthy.

22:9  Go ye therefore to the terminations of the streets; and as many as ye find, bid to the feast.

22:10  And those servants went out into the streets, and collected all they found, both bad and good; and the place of feasting was filled with guests.

22:11  And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who was not clad in the festal garments.

22:12  And he said to him: My friend, how camest thou here without the festal robes? But he was silent.

22:13  Then said the king to the servitors: Bind his hands and his feet, and cast him into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

22:14  For the called are many, and the chosen are few.

22:15  Then went the Pharisees and took counsel, how they might ensnare him in discourse.

22:16  And they sent to him their disciples, with domestics of Herod, and said to him: Teacher, we know that thou art veracious, and teachest the way of God with truth, regardless of man, for thou hast no respect of persons.

22:17  Tell us, therefore, how doth it appear to thee: is it lawful to pay capitation money to Caesar, or not?

22:18  But Jesus knew their wickedness, and said: Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

22:19  Show me a denarius of the capitation money. And they brought to him a denarius.

22:20  And Jesus said to them: Whose is this image and inscription?

22:21  They say, Caesar's. He saith to them: Give then Caesar's things to Caesar, and God's things to God.

22:22  And when they heard it they were surprised: and they left him, and went away.

22:23  The same day came Sadducees, and said to him: There is no life of the dead. And they questioned him,

22:24  and said to him: Teacher ; Moses commanded us, that if a man should die childless, his brother must take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

22:25  Now there were with us seven brothers. The first took a wife, and deceased; and, as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.

22:26  In like manner also the second, and the third, and up to the whole seven.

22:27  And after them all, the woman also herself died.

22:28  In the resurrection, therefore, to which of those seven will she be the wife? For they all had taken her?

22:29  Jesus answered, and said to them: Ye do err, from not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

22:30  For in the resurrection of the dead, they do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands; but they are as the angels of God in heaven.

22:31  But as to the resurrection of the dead,: have ye not read what was spoken to you by God, who said:

22:32  I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

22:33  And when the multitude heard it they were astonished at his doctrine.

22:34  And when the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they assembled together;

22:35  and one of them, who was expert in the law, to tempt him, inquired:

22:36  Teacher, which is the great command in the law?

22:37  Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy mind.

22:38  This is the great and first command.

22:39  And the second, which is like it, is, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

22:40  On these two commands hang the law and the prophets.

22:41  And while the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus questioned them,

22:42  and said: What say ye respecting, the Messiah? Whose son is he? They say to him; The son of David.

22:43  He saith to them: How then doth David, by the Spirit, call him Lord? for he said:

22:44  The Lord said to my Lord, Seat thyself at my right hand, until I place thy enemies under thy feet.

22:45  If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

22:46  And no one was able to give him an answer? And from that day, no one dared to question him.