1 En Jesus het weer deur gelykenisse met hulle begin spreek en gesê:
2 Die koninkryk van die hemele is soos 'n koning wat 'n bruilof vir sy seun berei het
3 en sy diensknegte uitgestuur het om die genooides na die bruilof te roep, en hulle wou nie kom nie.
4 Weer het hy ander diensknegte uitgestuur met die boodskap: Sê vir die genooides: Kyk, my maaltyd het ek berei, my beeste en vetgemaakte vee is geslag en alles is gereed. Kom na die bruilof.
5 Maar hulle het hul daaraan nie gesteur nie en weggegaan, een na sy eie stuk land en 'n ander na sy handelsaak.
6 En die origes het sy diensknegte gegryp en mishandel en doodgemaak.
7 Toe die koning dit hoor, het hy kwaad geword en sy manskappe gestuur en daardie moordenaars omgebring en hulle stad aan die brand gesteek.
8 Daarop sê hy vir sy diensknegte: Die bruilof is wel gereed, maar die genooides was dit nie werd nie.
9 Gaan dan op die kruispaaie en nooi almal wat julle mag vind, na die bruilof.
10 En daardie diensknegte het uitgegaan op die paaie en almal versamel wat hulle gevind het, slegtes sowel as goeies, en die bruilofsaal het vol gaste geword.
11 En toe die koning ingaan om na die gaste te kyk, sien hy daar iemand wat nie 'n bruilofskleed aan het nie.
12 En hy sê vir hom: Vriend, hoe het jy hier ingekom sonder 'n bruilofskleed aan? En hy kon geen woord sê nie.
13 Toe sê die koning vir sy dienaars: Bind sy hande en voete, neem hom weg en werp hom in die buitenste duisternis. Daar sal geween wees en gekners van die tande.
14 Want baie is geroep, maar min uitverkies.
15 Toe gaan die Fariseërs saam raad hou hoe om Hom in sy woord te verstrik.
16 En hulle stuur hul dissipels saam met die Herodiane na Hom en sê: Meester, ons weet dat U waaragtig is en die weg van God in waarheid leer en U aan niemand steur nie, want U sien nie die persoon van mense aan nie --
17 sê dan vir ons, wat dink U: Is dit geoorloof om aan die keiser belasting te betaal of nie?
18 Maar Jesus het hulle boosheid bemerk en gesê:
19 Geveinsdes, waarom versoek julle My? Wys My die belastingmunt. En hulle het vir Hom 'n penning gebring.
20 En Hy sê vir hulle: Wie se beeld en opskrif is dit?
21 Hulle antwoord Hom: Die keiser s'n. Daarop sê Hy vir hulle: Betaal dan aan die keiser wat die keiser toekom, en aan God wat God toekom.
22 En toe hulle dit hoor, was hulle verwonderd en het Hom verlaat en weggegaan.
23 Dieselfde dag kom daar na Hom Sadduseërs, hulle wat sê dat daar geen opstanding is nie, en vra Hom
24 en sê: Meester, Moses het gesê: As iemand sonder kinders sterwe, moet sy broer sy vrou trou en kinders vir sy broer verwek.
25 Nou was daar by ons sewe broers, en die eerste het getrou en gesterwe; en omdat hy geen kinders gehad het nie, het hy sy vrou vir sy broer agtergelaat.
26 So ook die tweede en die derde tot die sewende toe.
27 En laaste van almal het die vrou ook gesterwe.
28 In die opstanding dan, van watter een van die sewe sal sy die vrou wees -- want hulle almal het haar gehad?
29 Toe antwoord Jesus en sê vir hulle: Julle dwaal, omdat julle die Skrifte nie ken nie en ook nie die krag van God nie.
30 Want in die opstanding trou hulle nie en word ook nie in die huwelik uitgegee nie, maar is soos engele van God in die hemel.
31 En wat die opstanding van die dode betref -- het julle nie die woord gelees wat tot julle deur God gespreek is nie:
32 Ek is die God van Abraham en die God van Isak en die God van Jakob? God is nie 'n God van dooies nie, maar van lewendes.
33 En toe die skare dit hoor, was hulle verslae oor sy leer.
34 En toe die Fariseërs hoor dat Hy die Sadduseërs die mond gestop het, het hulle almal saam vergader.
35 En een van hulle, 'n wetgeleerde, het 'n vraag gestel om Hom te versoek en gesê:
36 Meester, wat is die groot gebod in die wet?
37 En Jesus antwoord hom: Jy moet die Here jou God liefhê met jou hele hart en met jou hele siel en met jou hele verstand.
38 Dit is die eerste en groot gebod.
39 En die tweede wat hiermee gelykstaan: Jy moet jou naaste liefhê soos jouself.
40 Aan hierdie twee gebooie hang die hele wet en die profete.
41 En toe die Fariseërs saamgekom het, vra Jesus hulle
42 en sê: Wat dink julle van die Christus? Wie se seun is Hy? Hulle antwoord Hom: Dawid s'n.
43 Hy sê vir hulle: Hoe is dit dan dat Dawid Hom in die Gees Here noem as hy sê:
44 Die Here het tot my Here gespreek: Sit aan my regterhand totdat Ek u vyande gemaak het 'n voetbank van u voete?
45 As Dawid Hom dan Here noem, hoe is Hy sy seun?
46 En niemand kon Hom 'n woord antwoord nie; ook het geeneen van daardie dag af dit meer gewaag om Hom vrae te stel nie.
1 And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:
2 The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,
3 And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.
4 Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.
5 But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:
6 And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.
7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
8 Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.
9 Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.
10 And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.
11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
12 And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
13 Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
14 For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
15 Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.
16 And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
17 Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?
19 Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.
20 And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?
21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
22 And hearing it, they were full of wonder, and went away from him.
23 On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,
24 Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;
25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;
26 In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman came to her end.
28 When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.
29 But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
30 For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.
31 But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
33 And the people hearing it were surprised at his teaching.
34 But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;
35 And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the chief rule in the law?
37 And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the first and greatest rule.
39 And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
40 On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.
41 Now while the Pharisees were together, Jesus put a question to them, saying,
42 What is your opinion of the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, The Son of David.
43 He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,
44 The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?
45 If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?
46 And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.