¹ And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

² The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who made a marriage for his son.

³ And he sent his servants to call them that were invited to the marriage: and they would not come.

⁴ Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come ye to the marriage.

⁵ But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

⁶ And the rest laid hands on his servants and, having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

⁷ But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

⁸ Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

¹⁰ And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

¹¹ And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

¹² And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

¹³ Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

¹⁷ Tell us therefore what dost thou think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

¹⁸ But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

¹⁹ Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

²⁰ And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?

²¹ They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

²² And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their ways.

²³ That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

²⁴ Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.

²⁵ Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

²⁶ In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the seventh.

²⁷ And last of all the woman died also.

²⁸ At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her.

²⁹ And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

³⁰ For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married, but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

³¹ And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying 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 And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.

³⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together.

³⁵ And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

³⁶ Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.

³⁸ This is the greatest and the first commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

⁴¹ And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,

⁴² Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: David's.

⁴³ He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:

⁴⁴ The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?

⁴⁵ If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

⁴⁶ And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.