He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

“Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?”

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables:

When the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.

The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

“Caesar’s,” they said to Him.

Then He said to them, “Therefore give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.

The same happened to the second also, and the third, and so to all seven.

And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God:

While the Pharisees were together, Jesus questioned them,

Then last of all the woman died.

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose Son is He?”

“David’s,” they told Him.

In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”

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.”

The same day some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up to Him and questioned Him:

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”

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

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

And one of them, an expert in the law, asked a question to test Him:

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed for a wedding.

Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

This is the greatest and most important command.

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at My right hand
until I put Your enemies under Your feet’?

He asked them, “How is it then that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls Him ‘Lord’:

When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.

So he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.

The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

So those slaves went out on the roads and gathered everyone they found, both evil and good. The wedding banquet was filled with guests.

And the others seized his slaves, treated them outrageously and killed them.

He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.

But perceiving their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing Me, hypocrites?

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

“Whose image and inscription is this?” He asked them.

Therefore go to where the roads exit the city and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’

“If David calls Him ‘Lord,’ how then can the Messiah be his Son?”

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius.

“Then he told his slaves, ‘The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

No one was able to answer Him at all, and from that day no one dared to question Him anymore.