[Matthew 22]

 

             {Mat 22:1-14; no parallel.}

             ^22:1 And Jesus answered and spoke again to them in parables, saying: ^22:2 The kingdom of the heavens was likened to a man, a king who made^* marriage-festivities for his son, ^22:3 and sent forth his bondservants to call the ones who have been invited to the marriage-festivities, and they were not willing to come. ^22:4 Again he sent forth other bondservants, saying, Say^° to the ones who have been invited, Behold, I prepared my meal; the oxen and the fattened calves have been sacrificed, and all things are prepared. Come-here^° to the marriage-festivities. ^22:5 But they neglected it and went away, one indeed to his own field, and the one to his merchandise; ^22:6 but the rest took-hold of his bondservants, abused and killed them. ^22:7 And that king heard it and was made angry, and after he sent his armies, he destroyed those murderers and scorched their city.

             ^22:8 Then he says to his bondservants, The marriage is indeed prepared, but the ones who have been invited were not worthy. ^22:9 Therefore, travel^° upon the thoroughfares of the roads, and as many as you^° would find, invite^° to the marriage-festivities. ^22:10 And those bondservants went forth into the roads, gathered together everyone, as many people as they found, both evil and good and the marriage was filled with people reclining at the table.

             ^22:11 But after the king entered to look at the ones reclining at the table, he saw a man there who has not clothed himself with marriage attire; ^22:12 and he says to him, Comrade, how did you enter here not having on your marriage attire? Now he was dumbfounded. ^22:13 Then the king said to the servants, After you^° have bound him hands and feet, take^° him away and cast^° him forth into the outer darkness; the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there. ^22:14 For^* many are the invited ones, but few are chosen.

 

             {Mar 12:13-17 & Mat 22:15-22 & Luk 20:20-26 Courtyard of the Temple, Tues.}

             ^22:15 Then the Pharisees traveled away, took a council on how they might ensnare him in his speech. ^22:16 And they send their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true^* and teach the way of God in truth, and do not care concerning one’s appearance; for^* you do not look at the countenance of men. ^22:17 Therefore, tell us, What do you think? Is it legal to give tribute to Caesar or not?

             ^22:18 But Jesus knew their wickedness and said, Why are you^° testing me, hypocrites? ^22:19 Show^° me the tribute coin. Now they brought to him a denarius. ^22:20 And he says to them, Whose face is this image and inscription? ^22:21 They say to him, Caesar’s. Then he says to them, Therefore, give^° to Caesar, the things which are Caesar’s, and to God, the things which are God’s. ^22:22 And they heard it, and marveled. And they left him and went away.

                          {Mar 12:18-27 & Mat 22:23-33 & Luk 20:27-39.}

             ^22:23 The Sadducees came to him in that day, the ones saying, There is to be no resurrection, and they asked him, ^22:24 saying, Teacher, Moses said, If anyone dies, having no children, his brother will marry his wife and will be raising^* up seed to his brother. {Deu 25:5} ^22:25 Now seven brothers were with us, and the first married, but after he died^*, having no seed, left his wife to his brother; ^22:26 likewise also the second and the third, until the seventh. ^22:27 But later than all, the woman also died. ^22:28 Therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven in the resurrection? For^* they all had her as a wife.

             ^22:29 But Jesus answered and said to them, You^° are being misled, by not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. ^22:30 For^* they neither marry, nor are given-in-marriage in the resurrection, but are like messengers of God in heaven. ^22:31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you^° not read what was said to you^° by God, saying, ^22:32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? {Exo 3:6} God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. ^22:33 And after the crowds heard it, they were being astounded over his teaching.

 

             {Mar 12:28-34 & Mat 22:34-40 & Luk 20:40.}

             ^22:34 But the Pharisees heard that he had hushed the Sadducees, and were gathered together upon the same ground. ^22:35 And one out-of them, a professor of the law, asked a question, testing him and saying, ^22:36 Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law?

             ^22:37 Now Jesus was saying to him, You will love^* the Lord your God in your whole heart and in your whole soul and in your whole mind. {Deu 6:5} ^22:38 This is the first and the great commandment. ^22:39 And the second commandment is similar to it, You will love^* your neighbor like yourself. {Lev 19:18} ^22:40 The whole law and the prophets are hung together in these two commandments.

 

             {Mar 12:35-37 & Mat 22:41-46 & Luk 20:41-44.}

             ^22:41 Now the Pharisees has been gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, ^22:42 saying, What do you^° think concerning the Christ? Whose son is he?

             They say to him, David’s.

             ^22:43 He says to them, Therefore, how does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ^22:44 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right, until I should place your enemies as the footstool of your feet? {Psa 110:1} ^22:45 Therefore, if David calls him Lord, how is he his son? ^22:46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day forth to ask him anymore questions.