1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

2“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who prepared a marriage feast for his son.

3He sent out his servants to call those who had been invited to come to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

4Again the king sent other servants, saying, 'Tell them who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast.”'

5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

6The others seized the king's servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.

7The king was angry, and he sent his soldiers and they killed those murderers and burned their city.

8Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

9Therefore go to the highway crossings and invite as many people to the marriage feast as you can find.'

10The servants went out to the highways and gathered together all the people they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

12The king said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?' But the man was speechless.

13Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind this man hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and the grinding of teeth.'

14For many people are called, but few are chosen.”

15Then the Pharisees went and planned how they might entrap Jesus in his own talk.

16Then they sent to him their disciples, together with the Herodians. They said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach God's way in truth. You care for no one's opinion, and you do not show partiality between people.

17So tell us, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

18But Jesus understood their wickedness and said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

19Show me the coin for the tax.” Then they brought a denarius to him.

20Jesus said to them, “Whose image and name are these?”

21They said to him, “Caesar's.” Then Jesus said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”

22When they heard it, they marveled. Then they left him and went away.

23On that day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him,

24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry his wife and have children for his brother.'

25There were seven brothers. The first married and then died. Having left no children, he left his wife to his brother.

26Then the second brother did the same thing, then the third, all the way to the seventh brother.

27After them all, the woman died.

28Now in the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven brothers? For they all had married her.”

29But Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Instead, they are like angels in heaven.

31But 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, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

34But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together.

35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him—

36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

37Jesus said to him, “'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

38This is the great and first commandment.

39And a second commandment is like it—'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

40On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets.”

41Now while the Pharisees were still gathered together, Jesus asked them a question.

42He said, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”

43Jesus said 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 your footstool”'?

45If David then calls the Christ 'Lord,' how is he David's son?”

46No one was able to answer him a word, and no man dared ask him any more questions from that day on.