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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Wedding Feast</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 14:15-24">Luke 14.15-24</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_1"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.1" class="v40_22_1">1</span>Jesus again used parables in talking to the people. </span><span class="v40_22_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.2" class="v40_22_2">2</span>“The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son. </span><span class="v40_22_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.3" class="v40_22_3">3</span>He sent his servants to tell the invited guests to come to the feast, but they did not want to come. </span><span class="v40_22_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.4" class="v40_22_4">4</span>So he sent other servants with this message for the guests: ‘My feast is ready now; my steers and prize calves have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!’ </span><span class="v40_22_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.5" class="v40_22_5">5</span>But the invited guests paid no attention and went about their business: one went to his farm, another to his store, </span><span class="v40_22_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.6" class="v40_22_6">6</span>while others grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them. </span><span class="v40_22_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.7" class="v40_22_7">7</span>The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city. </span><span class="v40_22_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.8" class="v40_22_8">8</span>Then he called his servants and said to them, ‘My wedding feast is ready, but the people I invited did not deserve it. </span><span class="v40_22_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.9" class="v40_22_9">9</span>Now go to the main streets and invite to the feast as many people as you find.’ </span><span class="v40_22_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.10" class="v40_22_10">10</span>So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, good and bad alike; and the wedding hall was filled with people.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.11" class="v40_22_11">11</span>“The king went in to look at the guests and saw a man who was not wearing wedding clothes. </span><span class="v40_22_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.12" class="v40_22_12">12</span>‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ the king asked him. But the man said nothing. </span><span class="v40_22_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.13" class="v40_22_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him outside in the dark. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.14" class="v40_22_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And Jesus concluded, “Many are invited, but few are chosen.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about Paying Taxes</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 12:13-17">Mark 12.13-17</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 20:20-26">Luke 20.20-26</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.15" class="v40_22_15">15</span>The Pharisees went off and made a plan to trap Jesus with questions. </span><span class="v40_22_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.16" class="v40_22_16">16</span>Then they sent to him some of their disciples and some members of Herod's party. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you tell the truth. You teach the truth about God's will for people, without worrying about what others think, because you pay no attention to anyone's status. </span><span class="v40_22_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.17" class="v40_22_17">17</span>Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it against our Law to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor, or not?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.18" class="v40_22_18">18</span>Jesus, however, was aware of their evil plan, and so he said, “You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me? </span><span class="v40_22_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.19" class="v40_22_19">19</span>Show me the coin for paying the tax!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_19">They brought him the coin, </span><span class="v40_22_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.20" class="v40_22_20">20</span>and he asked them, “Whose face and name are these?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.21" class="v40_22_21">21</span>“The Emperor's,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_21">So Jesus said to them, “Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.22" class="v40_22_22">22</span>When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about Rising from Death</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 12:18-27">Mark 12.18-27</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 20:27-40">Luke 20.27-40</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.23" class="v40_22_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from death. </span><span class="v40_22_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.24" class="v40_22_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Teacher,” they said, “Moses said that if a man who has no children dies, his brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children. </span><span class="v40_22_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.25" class="v40_22_25">25</span>Now, there were seven brothers who used to live here. The oldest got married and died without having children, so he left his widow to his brother. </span><span class="v40_22_26"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.26" class="v40_22_26">26</span>The same thing happened to the second brother, to the third, and finally to all seven. </span><span class="v40_22_27"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.27" class="v40_22_27">27</span>Last of all, the woman died. </span><span class="v40_22_28"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.28" class="v40_22_28">28</span>Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All of them had married her.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_29"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.29" class="v40_22_29">29</span>Jesus answered them, “How wrong you are! It is because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power. </span><span class="v40_22_30"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.30" class="v40_22_30">30</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.30!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For when the dead rise to life, they will be like the angels in heaven and will not marry. </span><span class="v40_22_31"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.31" class="v40_22_31">31</span>Now, as for the dead rising to life: haven't you ever read what God has told you? He said, </span><span class="v40_22_32"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.32" class="v40_22_32">32</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.32!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He is the God of the living, not of the dead.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_33"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.33" class="v40_22_33">33</span>When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Great Commandment</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 12:28-34">Mark 12.28-34</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 10:25-28">Luke 10.25-28</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_34"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.34" class="v40_22_34">34</span>When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they came together, </span><span class="v40_22_35"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.35" class="v40_22_35">35</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.35!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and one of them, a teacher of the Law, tried to trap him with a question. </span><span class="v40_22_36"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.36" class="v40_22_36">36</span>“Teacher,” he asked, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_37"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.37" class="v40_22_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ </span><span class="v40_22_38"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.38" class="v40_22_38">38</span>This is the greatest and the most important commandment. </span><span class="v40_22_39"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.39" class="v40_22_39">39</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.39!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The second most important commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ </span><span class="v40_22_40"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.40" class="v40_22_40">40</span>The whole Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets depend on these two commandments.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about the Messiah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MRK 12:35-37">Mark 12.35-37</ref>; <ref loc="LUK 20:41-44">Luke 20.41-44</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_41"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.41" class="v40_22_41">41</span>When some Pharisees gathered together, Jesus asked them, </span><span class="v40_22_42"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.42" class="v40_22_42">42</span>“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_42">“He is David's descendant,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_43"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.43" class="v40_22_43">43</span>“Why, then,” Jesus asked, “did the Spirit inspire David to call him ‘Lord’? David said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_22_44"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.44" class="v40_22_44">44</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.22.44!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘The Lord said to my Lord:</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_22_44">Sit here at my right side</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_22_44">until I put your enemies under your feet.’</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v40_22_45"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.45" class="v40_22_45">45</span>If, then, David called him ‘Lord,’ how can the Messiah be David's descendant?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v40_22_46"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.22.46" class="v40_22_46">46</span>No one was able to give Jesus any answer, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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