1 And again Jesusoch. 13:34 spoke to them in parables, saying, 2 pFor ver. 2-14, [Luke 14:16-24] “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gaveqSee Rev. 19:7 a wedding feast for his son, 3 andr[Esth. 6:14; Prov. 9:3, 5] sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 sch. 21:36 Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared mytLuke 11:38; John 21:12, 15 (Gk.) dinner,uProv. 9:2 my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. ’ 5 Butv[Heb. 2:3] they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 6 while the rest seized his servants,wLuke 18:32; Acts 14:5; 1 Thess. 2:2 treated them shamefully, andxSee ch. 21:35 killed them. 7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops andych. 21:41; Luke 19:27 destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were notzch. 10:11; Acts 13:46; Rev. 3:4; [Luke 20:35] worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find. ’ 10 And those servants went out into the roads andbSee ch. 13:47 gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw therec[Rev. 19:8; 22:14] a man who had no wedding garment. 12 And he said to him,dch. 20:13; 26:50 ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? ’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot andeSee ch. 8:12 cast him into the outer darkness. In that placeeSee ch. 8:12 there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ’ 14 For many arefRev. 17:14 called, but few arefRev. 17:14 chosen. ”
15 gFor ver. 15-32, see Mark 12:13-27; Luke 20:20-38 Then the Pharisees went and plotted howh[Luke 11:54] to entangle him in his talk. 16 And they sentiMark 2:18 their disciples to him, along withjMark 3:6; [Mark 8:15] the Herodians, saying, “Teacher,k[John 3:2] we know that you are true and teachlActs 18:26; [Acts 13:10] the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, formSee Acts 10:34 you are not swayed by appearances. 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to paynch. 17:25 taxes tooLuke 2:1; 3:1 Caesar, or not? ” 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “WhypSee John 8:6 put me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin for the tax. ” And they brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this? ” 21 They said, “Caesar's. ” Then he said to them, qRom. 13:7 “Therefore render 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 theyrMark 12:12 left him and went away.
23 The same daysver. 34; ch. 3:7; 16:1; Acts 4:1; 5:17; 23:6 Sadducees came to him,tActs 23:8; [Acts 4:2] who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 24 saying, “Teacher, Moses said,u[Deut. 25:5] ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. ’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. 26 So too the second and third, down to the seventh. 27 After them all, the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her. ”
29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong,vJohn 20:9 because you know neither the Scriptures norw1 Cor. 6:14 the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neitherxch. 24:38; Luke 17:27 marry norxch. 24:38; Luke 17:27 are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 31 And as for the resurrection of the dead,ySee ch. 21:16 have you not read what was said to you by God: 32 zActs 7:32; Cited from Ex. 3:6 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. ” 33 And when the crowd heard it,aSee ch. 7:28 they were astonished at his teaching.
34 bFor ver. 34-40, see Mark 12:28-33 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silencedcver. 23 the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 d[Luke 10:25-28] And one of them,eSee Luke 7:30 a lawyer, asked him a questionfver. 18 to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? ” 37 And he said to him, gLuke 10:27; Cited from Deut. 6:5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 Andh[1 John 4:21] a second is like it:iCited from Lev. 19:18; See ch. 19:19 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 j[Rom. 13:8, 10] On these two commandments dependkch. 7:12; [Gal. 5:14] all the Law and the Prophets. ”
41 lFor ver. 41-45, see Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44 Now while the Phariseesmver. 34 were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think aboutnSee ch. 1:1, 17 the Christ? Whose son is he? ” They said to him,nSee ch. 1:1, 17 “The son of David. ” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David,oRev. 1:10; 4:2; [2 Sam. 23:2] in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
44 pActs 2:34, 35; Heb. 1:13; Cited from Ps. 110:1; [1 Cor. 15:25; Heb. 10:13] ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet ’?
45 If then David calls him Lord,q[Rom. 1:3, 4] how is he his son? ” 46 r[Luke 14:6] And no one was able to answer him a word,sMark 12:34; Luke 20:40 nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.