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The Gospel According to St. Matthew

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(Luke 14:15–24)
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Then Jesus told the Jewish leaders other parables. This is one of those parables.
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“God ruling from heaven is like a king who told his servants that they should make a wedding feast for his son.
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When the feast was ready, the king sent his servants to tell the people whom he had invited that it was time for them to come to the wedding feast. The servants went out and told the people. But the people who had been invited did not want to come.
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So the king sent other servants to again tell those people to come to the feast. He said to those servants, ‘Say to the people whom I invited to come to the feast, “This is what the king says to you, ‘I have prepared the meal. The oxen and the fattened calves have been butchered and cooked. Everything is ready. It is time now for you to come to the wedding feast!’”’
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But when the servants told them that, they disregarded what the servants said. Some of them went to their own fields. Others went to their places of business.
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The rest of them seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
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When the king heard what had happened, he became furious. He commanded his soldiers to go and kill those murderers and burn their city.
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After his soldiers had done that, the king said to his other servants, ’I have prepared the wedding feast, but the people who were invited do not deserve to come to it.
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So go to the intersections of the main roads. Tell whomever you find that they should come to the wedding feast.’
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So the servants went there, and they gathered everyone they could find. They gathered both bad people and good people. They brought them into the hall where the wedding feast was about to take place. The hall was filled with people.
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But when the king went into the hall to see the guests, he saw someone who was not wearing clothes that had been provided for the guests to wear at a wedding feast.
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The king said to him, ‘Friend, you should never have entered this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes that guests wear at wedding feasts!’ The man did not say anything, because he did not know what to say.
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Then the king said to his servants, ‘Tie this person’s feet and hands and throw him outside where there is total darkness, where people cry out and gnash their teeth because of the pain they are in.’”
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Then Jesus said, “The point of this parable is that God has invited many to come to him, but only a few people are the ones whom he has chosen to be there.”

Paying Taxes to Caesar

(Mark 12:13–17; Luke 20:19–26)
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After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
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They sent to him some of their disciples along with those of the Herodian party. Those said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the truth about what God wants us to do. We also know that you do not change what you teach because of what someone says about you, no matter what kind of person they are.
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So tell us what you think about this matter: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government, or not?”
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But Jesus knew that what they really wanted to do was evil. They were wanting him to say something that would get him in trouble with either the Jewish authorities or the Roman authorities. So he said to them, “You are hypocrites; you want me to say something for which you can accuse me.
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Show me one of the coins with which people pay the Roman tax.” So they showed him a coin called a denarius.
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He said to them, “Whose picture is on this coin? And whose name is on it?”
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They answered, “It has the picture and name of Caesar, the head of the Roman government.” Then he said to them, “So give to the government what they require, and give to God what he requires.”
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When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him. Then they left Jesus.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

(Mark 12:18–27; Luke 20:27–40)
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During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. They are a Jewish group who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die. They asked Jesus,
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“Teacher, Moses wrote in the scriptures, ‘If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the dead man’s widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child will be considered the descendant of the man who died, and in that way the dead man will have descendants.’
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There were seven boys in a family. The oldest one married someone. He and his wife did not have any children, and he died. So the second brother married the widow. But he also died without having a child.
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The same thing happened to the third brother, and also to the other four brothers, who one by one married this same woman.
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Last of all, the woman also died.
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So, at the time when God will raise people from the dead, which of the seven brothers do you think will be her husband? Keep in mind that they had all been married to her.”
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Jesus replied to them, “You are certainly wrong in what you are thinking. You do not know what is written in the scriptures. You also do not know that God has the power to make people alive again.
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The fact is that the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because after God causes all dead people to live again, no one will be married. Instead, people will be like the angels in heaven. They do not marry.
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But about dead people becoming alive again, God said something about that. I am sure you have read it. Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses,
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‘I am God whom Abraham worships, God whom Isaac worships, and God whom Jacob worships.’ It is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. So we are sure that their spirits are still alive!”
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When the crowds of people heard Jesus teach that, they were amazed.

The Greatest Commandment

(Deuteronomy 6:1–19; Mark 12:28–34)
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But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had answered the Sadducees in such a way that the Sadducees could not think of anything that they might say to respond to him, the Pharisees gathered together to plan what they would say to him. Then they approached him.
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One of them was a man who was a lawyer, who had studied well the laws that God gave Moses. He wanted to debate Jesus. He asked him,
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“Teacher, which commandment in the laws that God gave Moses is the most important?”
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Jesus quoted the scriptures as he replied, “‘You must love Lord God with all your inner being. Show that you love him in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.’
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That is the most important commandment in the laws that God gave Moses.
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The next most important commandment that everyone must surely obey is: ‘You must love the people you come in contact with as much as you love yourself.’
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These two commandments are the basis of every law that Moses wrote in the scriptures and also of all that the prophets wrote.”

Whose Son Is the Christ?

(Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44)
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While the Pharisees were still gathered together near Jesus, he asked them,
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“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” They said to him, “He is the descendant of King David.”
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Jesus said to them, “If the Messiah is King David’s descendant, then David should not have called him ‘Lord’ when David was saying what the Holy Spirit told him to say.
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David wrote this in the scriptures about the Messiah: ‘God said to my Lord, “Sit here beside me on my right, where I will greatly honor you, while I put your enemies under your feet.” ’
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So, since King David called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ the Messiah cannot be just someone descended from David! He must be much greater than David!”
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No one who heard what Jesus said was able to think of even one word to say to him in response. After that, no one else ever dared to ask him another question to try to trap him.
(Luke 14:15–24)
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Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,
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“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,
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and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
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Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’
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But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;
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and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
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When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.
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Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’
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Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
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“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
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and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.
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Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
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For many are called, but few chosen.”

Paying Taxes to Caesar

(Mark 12:13–17; Luke 20:19–26)
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Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
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They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone.
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Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
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But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
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Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.
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He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”
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They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
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When they heard it, they marveled, and left him and went away.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

(Mark 12:18–27; Luke 20:27–40)
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On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
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saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring(a) for his brother.’
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Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.
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In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
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After them all, the woman died.
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In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”
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But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.
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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,
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‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? (b) God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
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When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

The Greatest Commandment

(Deuteronomy 6:1–19; Mark 12:28–34)
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But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
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One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
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Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”
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Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ (c)
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This is the first and great commandment.
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A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ (d)
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The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Whose Son Is the Christ?

(Mark 12:35–37; Luke 20:41–44)
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Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
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saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”
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He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
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‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? (e)
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“If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”
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No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Fußnoten

(a)22:24 or, seed
(b)22:32 ℘ Exodus 3:6
(c)22:37 ℘ Deuteronomy 6:5
(d)22:39 ℘ Leviticus 19:18
(e)22:44 ℘ Psalms 110:1