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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Matthew 22 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Parable of the Wedding Banquet</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>For many are called, but few are chosen.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about Paying Taxes</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why are you putting me to the test, you hypocrites? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Show me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Then he said to them, “Whose head is this, and whose title?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>They answered, “The emperor’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about the Resurrection</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>The same day some Sadducees came to him, saying there is no resurrection;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28166a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and they asked him a question, saying, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>The second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Last of all, the woman herself died. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For all of them had married her.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28173b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> in heaven. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is God not of the dead, but of the living.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Greatest Commandment</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>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.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>This is the greatest and first commandment. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about David’s Son</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>“What do you think of the Messiah?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28185c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-28186d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> calls him Lord, saying,</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>‘The Lord said to my Lord,</span><br /><span class="text">“Sit at my right hand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">until I put your enemies under your feet”’?</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Matthew 22:23">Matthew 22:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>who say that there is no resurrection</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Matthew 22:30">Matthew 22:30</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities add <i>of God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Matthew 22:42">Matthew 22:42</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Matthew 22:43">Matthew 22:43</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>in spirit</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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