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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Matthew 22 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Matthew 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/21.htm" title="Matthew 21">◄</a> Matthew 22 <a href="../matthew/23.htm" title="Matthew 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/matthew/22.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Parable of the Wedding Banquet</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens">a</a></sup></span> to Caesar or not?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, <span class="red">“You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Show me the coin used for paying the tax.”</span> They brought him a denarius, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and he asked them, <span class="red">“Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Caesar’s,” they replied.</p><p class="reg">Then he said to them, <span class="red">“So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Marriage at the Resurrection</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Finally, the woman died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="red">‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Exodus 3:6">b</a></sup></span> ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Greatest Commandment</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Jesus replied: <span class="red">“ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 6:5">c</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="red">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="red">And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Lev. 19:18">d</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="red">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”</span></p> <p class="sectionhead">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="red">“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”</span></p><p class="reg">“The son of David,” they replied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>He said to them, <span class="red">“How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,</span></p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="red">“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord:</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">“Sit at my right hand</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">until I put your enemies</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">under your feet.” ’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 110:1">e</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="red">If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">32</span> <span class="footnotebot">Exodus 3:6</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">37</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 6:5</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> <span class="footnotebot">Lev. 19:18</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">44</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 110:1</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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