Matthew - Chapter 22

1 And Yeshua answered again in parables, and said: 2 "The kingdom of heaven is like to a king who made a feast for his son. 3 And he sent his servants so as to call those that had been invited to a wedding feast, but they had no desire to come. 4 And again he sent other servants, and said: 'Say to those who are invited: 'Behold! My supper is prepared, my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and every thing is prepared; come to the wedding feast.' 5 But they showed disrespect, and went away, one to his field, and another to his business; 6 and the rest grabbed hold of his servants, and mocked them, and murdered them. 7 And when the king heard this, he was angry, and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and he burned their city.

8 "Then said he to his servants: 'The wedding feast is prepared, but those that were invited are not worthy. 9 Go therefore to the main streets and anyone that you may find, call to the wedding feast.' 10 And those servants went out into the streets, and gathered anyone that they found, both bad and good; and the banquet house filled with guests. 11 And the king went in to see the guests, and he saw a man there who was not wearing attire for a wedding. 12 And he said to him: 'My friend, how did enter in here without wedding attire?' But he said nothing. 13 Then the king said to the servants: 'Bind his hands and his feet, and cast 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 left and took counsel, as to how they might trap him with a question. 16 And they sent their talmidim to him, with the Herodians, and were saying to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are true, and you correctly teach the Way of God, without favour to any man, for you do not differentiate between men. 17 Tell us, therefore, tell us your interpretation: is it lawful to pay head money to Caesar or not?" 18 But Yeshua knew their evil [[motives]], and said: "Why do you plan to trap me, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin* of the head tax." And they brought to him a coin. 20 And Yeshua said to them: "Whose image and inscription is this?" 21 And they said: "Caesar". He said to them: "Therefore, give that which is of Caesar to Caesar, and that which is of God to God." 22 And when they heard this they were amazed and they left him, and went away.

23 On the same day the Sadducees approached and said to him: "There is no resurrection of the dead." And they asked him, 24 saying to him: "Rabbi, Mosha instructed us, that if a man should die having no sons, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed for his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died and because he had no sons, he left his wife to his brother. 26 In the same manner also the second, the third, and up to the seventh. 27 And after all of them the woman died. 28 In the resurrection, therefore, which of those seven will she be a wife? For they all had married her?"

29 Yeshua answered, and said to them: "You err due to not knowing the Scriptures, or the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection of the dead, women are not married, nor are women given to husbands; rather they are as the angels of God in heaven. 31 But as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, who said: 32 'I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya'aqub'? Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

33 And when the crowds heard this they were amazed, because of his teaching. 34 And when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together, 35 and asked one of them, who knew the Torah, to test him: 36 "Rabbi, which mitzvah is the greatest in the Torah?" 37 Yeshua said to him: "You shall love Mar-Yah your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and first mitzvah. 39 And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. 40 On these two mitzvoth hang the Torah and the Prophets."

41 And while the Pharisees were assembled, Yeshua questioned them, 42 and said: "What do you say about the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They said to him: "The son of David. 43 And he said to them: "How then did David, in the Spirit, call him Mar-Yah? for he said: 44 'Mar-Yah said to my Lord, Sit yourself at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.'*

45 Therefore, if David calls him Mar-Yah, how is he his son?" 46 And no one was able to give him an answer and from that day, no one dared to question him.