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 answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? 19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. 20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21 They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. 22 When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

23 The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, 24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. 31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, 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 when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. 43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, 44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? 45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? 46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.