1 Jesus responded and spoke to them in parables once more, saying,
2 "The kingdom of heaven has become like a king who held a wedding feast for his son.
3 He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the wedding feast, but they refused to come.
4 Again he sent other servants and said, 'Tell the invited guests, "See, I have got my meal ready; my bulls and my fattened animals have been butchered, and everything is prepared. Come to the wedding feast!"'
5 But they disregarded it and went off, one to his own farm, another to his trade,
6 while the rest grabbed his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 When the king heard about it, he became furious; he sent his troops, wiped out those murderers, and set their city on fire.
8 Then he told his servants, 'The wedding is prepared, but the invited guests were not worthy.
9 So go out to where the roads leave the city, and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.'
10 Those servants went out onto the roads and brought together everyone they found, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with people reclining at table.
11 "But when the king came in to view the guests, he noticed a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
12 He said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man had nothing to say.
13 Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him out into the darkness outside. There will be weeping and grinding of teeth.'
14 For many are called, but few are chosen."
15 Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might trap him in what he said.
16 They sent their disciples to him together with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the way of God in truth, and you are not concerned about anyone, for you do not look at people's outward standing.
17 So tell us, what is your opinion? Is it lawful to pay the poll tax to Caesar, or not?"
18 But Jesus, recognizing their malice, said, "Why are you testing me, hypocrites?
19 Show me the coin used for the poll tax." They brought him a denarius.
20 He asked them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?"
21 They answered, "Caesar's." Then he told them, "Pay back, then, to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God."
22 Hearing this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
23 That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him,
24 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If anyone dies without children, his brother is to marry his widow and raise up offspring for his brother.'
25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.
26 The same happened with the second and the third, all the way to the seventh.
27 Last of all, the woman died too.
28 So in the resurrection, which of the seven will she be wife to? For all of them had her."
29 Jesus answered them, "You are going astray, since you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
30 For in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage; they are like God's angels in heaven.
31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God spoke to you, when he said,
32 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'? God is not God of the dead but of the living."
33 The crowds heard this and were astounded at his teaching.
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had muzzled the Sadducees, they came together in one place.
35 And one of them, an expert in the law, put a question to him to test him:
36 "Teacher, which commandment in the law is great?"
37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.'
38 This is the first commandment, and the great one.
39 And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
40 The whole Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
41 While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus put a question to them,
42 asking, "What is your view about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They told him, "David's."
43 He said to them, "Then how is it that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, when he says,
44 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"'?
45 So if David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
46 No one could answer him a single word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any further.