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1 And Jesus answered again and said to them in parables, saying: 2 The kingdom of heaven was likened to a king who made a wedding feast for his son. 3 And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding, but they did not want to come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying, "Tell those who are invited, 'Behold, my dinner is prepared, my oxen and the fattened animals are killed, and all things are ready; come to the wedding.'" 5 But those who neglected went away, one to his own field, and another to his business. 6 But the others seized his servants, insulted them, and killed them. 7 But the king was enraged, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 Then he says to his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy." 9 Go therefore to the exits of the roads, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding. 10 And those servants went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both wicked and good; and the wedding was filled with reclining guests. 11 And when the king entered to see those reclining, he saw there a man not dressed in wedding clothes. 12 And he says to him, "Friend, how did you enter here without wedding garments?" And he was silent. 13 Then the king said to the servants, "Having bound his feet and hands, cast him out into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 14 For many are called, but few are chosen. 15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might trap him in a word. 16 And they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not care about anyone, for you do not look at the appearance of men." 17 Therefore, tell us what you think; is it lawful to give a tax to Caesar or not? 18 But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, "Why are you testing me, hypocrites?" 19 Show me the coin of the tax. And they brought him a denarius. 20 And he says to them, "Whose image is this and the inscription?" 21 They say to him, "Caesar's." Then he says to them, "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's." 22 And having heard, they marvelled, and leaving him, they went away. 23 On that day, the Sadducees approached him, saying that there is no resurrection, and they asked him. 24 Saying: Teacher, Moses said: If anyone dies without children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 There were among us seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died, and having no seed, left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise the second and the third, up to the seventh. 27 Afterwards, the woman died, last of all. 28 In the resurrection, therefore, of which of the seven will she be a wife? For they all had her. 29 But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God." 30 For in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying: 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 crowds, having heard, were amazed at his teaching. 34 And the Pharisees, having heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together in the same place. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him, testing him. 36 Teacher, which is the great command in the law? 37 And he said to him: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 But the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 In these two commandments, the entire law and the prophets hang. 41 And when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them. 42 Saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They say to him, "David's." 43 He says to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying:" 44 The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. 45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son? 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him any more questions.