馬太福音 第22章 共28章
- 1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
- 2"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
- 3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
- 4"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
- 5"But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business.
- 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
- 7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
- 8"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.
- 9Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'
- 10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
- 11"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
- 12'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
- 13"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
- 14"For many are invited, but few are chosen." (Paying Taxes to Caesar )
- 15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.
- 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are.
- 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
- 18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
- 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius,
- 20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
- 21"Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
- 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away. (Marriage at the Resurrection )
- 23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
- 24"Teacher," they said, "Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him.
- 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
- 26The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
- 27Finally, the woman died.
- 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?"
- 29Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
- 30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
- 31But about the resurrection of the dead--have you not read what God said to you,
- 32'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."
- 33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. (The Greatest Commandment )
- 34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
- 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
- 36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
- 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
- 38This is the first and greatest commandment.
- 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
- 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Whose Son Is the Christ )
- 41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
- 42"What do you think about the Christ ? Whose son is he?" "The son of David," they replied.
- 43He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For he says,
- 44" 'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." '
- 45If then David calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"
- 46No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.