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Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Banquet<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/14.htm#15">Luke 14:15–24</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Iesus answered, and spake vnto the agayne by parables, & sayde: <A name="3"></a><span class="red"><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a kynge, which maried his sonne. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And sent forth his seruauntes, to call the gestes vnto the mariage, & they wolde not come. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Agayne, he sent forth other seruauntes, and sayde: Tell the gestes: Beholde, I haue prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled, and all thinges are readye, come to the mariage. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But they made light of it, and wente their wayes: one to his hussbandrye, another to his marchaundise. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>As for the remnaut, they toke his seruauntes, and intreated the shamefully, and slew the. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the kynge herde that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warryers, and destroyed those murtherers, and set fyre vpon their cite. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes: The mariage in dede is prepared, but the gestes were not worthy. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Go youre waye out therfore in to ye hye wayes, and as many as ye fynde, byd them to the mariage. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the seruauntes wete out in to the hye wayes, and gathered together as many as they coulde fynde, both good and bad, & the tables were all full.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the kynge wete in, to se the gestes, and spyed there a man that had not on a weddynge garment, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and sayde vnto him: Frende, how camest thou in hither, & hast not on a weddyinge garment? And he was euen spechlesse. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes: Take and bynde him hande and fote, & cast him into ye vtter darcknes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For many be called, but few are chose.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Paying Taxes to Caesar<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../mark/12.htm#13">Mark 12:13–17</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#19">Luke 20:19–26</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then wente the Pharises, and toke councell, how they might tangle him in his wordes, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes officers, and sayde: Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the waye of God truly, and carest for no ma: for thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of me. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Tell us therfore, how thinkest thou? Is it laufulll to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure, or not? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now wha Iesus perceaued their wickednes, he sayde: O ye ypocrites, why tepte ye me? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Shewe me ye tribute money. And they toke hi a peny. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he saide vnto the: Whose is this ymage and superscription? <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They sayde vnto him: The Emperours. Then sayde he vnto them: Geue therfore vnto the Emperour, that which is the Emperours: and geue vnto God, that which is Gods. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When they herde that, they marueyled, and left him, & wete their waye.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">The Sadducees and the Resurrection<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../mark/12.htm#18">Mark 12:18–27</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#27">Luke 20:27–40</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The same daye there came vnto him the Saduces (which holde that there is no resurreccion) and axed him, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and sayde: Master, Moses sayde: Yf a man dye, hauynge no children, his brother shal mary his wife, & rayse vp sede vnto his brother. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now were there with us seue brethren. The first maried a wife, and dyed: & for somoch as he had no sede, he left his wife vnto his brother. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Like wyse the secode, and thirde vnto the seueth. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Last of all the woman dyed also. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Now in the resurreccion, whose wife shal she be of the seuen? For they all had her.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Iesus answered, and sayde vnto them: Ye erre, and vnderstode not the scriptures, ner the power of God. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>In the resurreccion they shal nether mary, ner be maried, but are as the angels of God in heauen. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>As touchinge the resurreccio of the deed, haue ye notred, what is spoken vnto you of God, which sayeth: <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>I am the God of Abraham, and ye God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob? Yet is not God a God of the deed, but of the lyuynge. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And whan the people herde that, they were astonnyed at his doctryne.<p> <A name="35"></a><p class="hdg">The Greatest Commandment<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/6.htm">Deuteronomy 6:1–19</a>; <a href ="../mark/12.htm#28">Mark 12:28–34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>When the Pharises herde, that he had stopped the mouth of the Saduces, they gathered them selues together. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And one of them (a Scrybe) tepted him, and sayde: <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Master, which is the chefest commaundemet in the lawe? <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Iesus saide vnto him: Thou shalt loue the LORDE thy God with all thy hert, with all thy soule, and with all thy mynde: <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>this is the pryncipall and greatest comaundement. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>As for the seconde, it is like vnto it: Thou shalt loue thy neghboure as thy self. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>In these two commaundementes hange all the lawe and the prophetes.<p> <A name="42"></a><p class="hdg">Whose Son Is the Christ?<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../mark/12.htm#35">Mark 12:35–37</a>; <a href ="../luke/20.htm#41">Luke 20:41–44</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Now whyle the Pharises were gathered together, Iesus axed them, <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>and sayde: What thinke ye of Christ? Whose sonne is he? They sayde vnto him: Dauids. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>He sayde vnto them: How then doth Dauid in sprete, call him LORDE, sayenge:<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>The LORDE sayde vnto my LORDE: Syt thou on my right honde, tyll I make thine enemies thy fote stole.<p> <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Yf Dauid now call him LORDE, how is he then his sonne? <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And no man coude answere him one worde, nether durst eny man axe him eny mo questios, fro that daye forth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>