rsv Matthew:22:3-33
rsv@Matthew:22:3 @ and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast; but they would not come.
rsv@Matthew:22:4 @ Again he sent other servants, saying, `Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have made ready my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves are killed, and everything is ready; come to the marriage feast.'
rsv@Matthew:22:5 @ But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,
rsv@Matthew:22:6 @ while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
rsv@Matthew:22:7 @ The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
rsv@Matthew:22:8 @ Then he said to his servants, `The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
rsv@Matthew:22:9 @ Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find.'
rsv@Matthew:22:10 @ And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
rsv@Matthew:22:11 @ "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;
rsv@Matthew:22:12 @ and he said to him, `Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
rsv@Matthew:22:13 @ Then the king said to the attendants, `Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
rsv@Matthew:22:14 @ For many are called, but few are chosen."
rsv@Matthew:22:15 @ Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.
rsv@Matthew:22:16 @ And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Hero'di-ans, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men.
rsv@Matthew:22:17 @ Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
rsv@Matthew:22:18 @ But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?
rsv@Matthew:22:19 @ Show me the money for the tax." And they brought him a coin.
rsv@Matthew:22:20 @ And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?"
rsv@Matthew:22:21 @ They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
rsv@Matthew:22:22 @ When they heard it, they marveled; and they left him and went away.
rsv@Matthew:22:23 @ The same day Sad'ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question,
rsv@Matthew:22:24 @ saying, "Teacher, Moses said, `If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.'
rsv@Matthew:22:25 @ Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
rsv@Matthew:22:26 @ So too the second and third, down to the seventh.
rsv@Matthew:22:27 @ After them all, the woman died.
rsv@Matthew:22:28 @ In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her."
rsv@Matthew:22:29 @ But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.
rsv@Matthew:22:30 @ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
rsv@Matthew:22:31 @ And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God,
rsv@Matthew:22:32 @ `I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living."
rsv@Matthew:22:33 @ And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.