1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son. 3 He sent his slaves to call those invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner. My bulls and fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’ 5 But they paid no attention and went away, one to his own field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8 Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9 So go to the crossroads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ 10 Those slaves went out into the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good, and the wedding feast was filled with guests. 11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment. 12 He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind his feet and hands and throw him into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth. You are not swayed by anyone, for you show no partiality. 17 So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay the tax to Caesar or not?” 18 But Jesus, knowing their malice, said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin used for the tax.” They brought him a denarius. 20 And he said to them, “Whose image and inscription are these?” 21 They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” 22 When they heard this, they marveled, left him, and went away.

23 That day Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him, 24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without children, his brother must marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’ 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26 The same happened to the second, and the third, down to the seventh. 27 Last of all, the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, then, which of the seven will have her as his wife? For they all had her.”

29 Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you know neither 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, have you not read what God said to you: 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” 33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 One of them, an expert in the Law, asked him a question to test him: 36 “Teacher, which commandment is greatest in the Law?” 37 He said to him, “ ‘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 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”

41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” 43 He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

45 If David calls him Lord, how then is he his son?” 46 No one could answer him a word, and from that day no one dared ask him any more questions.