Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

Again Jesus spoke to them in parables. He said,

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place.

The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.'

They told him, "Caesar's." So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.

Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power,

because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

"Teacher, Moses said, "If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.'

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

The same thing happened with the second brother, and then the third, and finally with the rest of the brothers.

When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

As for the resurrection from the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God when he said,

While the Pharisees were still gathered, Jesus asked them,

Finally, the woman died, too.

"What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?" They told him, "David's."

Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married her?"

"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."

That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him,

because many are invited, but few are chosen."

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

"The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance.

So he sent other servants after saying, "Tell those who have been invited, "Look! I've prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!"'

One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking,

Then the king told his servants, "Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness outside!' In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,

"When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

This is the greatest and most important commandment.

"The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'?

He asked them, "Then how can David by the Spirit call him "Lord' when he says,

When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.

He asked him, "Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' But the man was speechless.

Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Those servants went out into the streets and brought in everyone they found, evil and good alike, and the wedding hall was packed with guests.

The rest grabbed the king's servants, treated them brutally, and then killed them.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

Recognizing their wickedness, Jesus asked, "Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

But they paid no attention to this and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

They brought him a denarius. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name is this?"

So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'

If David calls him "Lord', how can he be his son?"

Show me the coin used for the tax."

"Then he told his servants, "The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.