1 Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying, 2 "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 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!"’ 5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise; 6 and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

8 "Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy. 9 Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’ 10 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.

11 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, 12 and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. 13 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.’ 14 For many are called, but few chosen."

15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. 16 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. 17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the tax money."

They brought to him a denarius.

20 He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

21 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."

22 When they heard it, they marveled, and left him and went away.

23 On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, 24 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. 26 In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. 27 After them all, the woman died. 28 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."

29 But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to 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 When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. 36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"

37 Jesus said to him, "‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"

They said to him, "Of David."

43 He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,

sit on my right hand,

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’?

45 "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

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.