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1 - And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

2 - The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son.

3 - And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the marriage: and they would not come.

4 - Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.

5 - But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

6 - And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

7 - But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

8 - Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

9 - Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

10 - And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

11 - And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

12 - And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

13 - Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14 - For many are called, but few are chosen.

15 - Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

16 - And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

17 - Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

18 - But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

19 - Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

20 - And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?

21 - They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

22 - And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways.

23 - That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

24 - Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.

25 - Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

26 - In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the seventh.

27 - And last of all the woman died also.

28 - At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her.

29 - And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

30 - For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

31 - And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:

32 - I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.

33 - And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.

34 - But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together.

35 - And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

36 - Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

37 - Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.

38 - This is the greatest and the first commandment.

39 - And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 - On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

41 - And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42 - Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David's.

43 - He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:

44 - The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?

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

46 - And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.