tl Then Jesus spoke forth again and talked to them in parables, saying: The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who held a wedding for his son. And he sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the wedding, and they would not come. Again he sent forth more slaves, saying to them: Tell the invited guests: See, I have made the dinner ready, my oxen and calves are sacrificed, and all is ready; come to the wedding. But they paid no heed and went their ways, one to his own lands, one to his house of business, but the others seized the slaves and outraged them and killed them. Then the king was angry and sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his slaves: The wedding feast is ready, but the invited guests were not worthy. Go out then to the street corners and invite any you find there, to the wedding. And those slaves went out into the streets and brought in all they found, bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests at the tables. The king came in to see them at dinner, and saw one man who was not wearing a wedding garment; and he said to him: My friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment? The man was speechless. Then the king said to his servants: Tie his feet and his hands and cast him into the outer darkness. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. For many are invited but few are accepted.
Then the Pharisees went and held a consultation, in order to catch him up in what he said. They sent their disciples along with the Herodians, and they said: Master, we know that you are truthful, and you teach the way of God truthfully, and you care for no man, for you are no respecter of persons. Tell us then what you think. Is it lawful to pay the assessment to Caesar, or not? Jesus guessed at their treachery and said: Hypocrites, why do you tempt me? Show me the coin for the assessment. They showed him a denarius. He said: Whose is the image, and whose name is inscribed? They said: Caesar's. Then he said to them: Then give Caesar what is Caesar's and God what is God's. When they heard this, they were left wondering, and let him be, and went away.
On that day there came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. And they questioned him, saying: Master, Moses said: If a man dies without children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue for his brother. But among us there were seven brothers. The first married and died without issue, and left his wife to his brother; and so also did the second and third until all seven had married her. Last of all the woman died. So in the resurrection, whose wife will she be, of the seven? For they all had her as wife. Jesus answered and said to them: You are far astray and do not know the scriptures, nor yet the power of God. For in the resurrection they do not marry, nor are they married, but are as the angels in heaven. But as to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read the word spoken to you by God, saying: I am the
God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. God is not God of the dead but of the living. Hearing this the multitude were struck with wonder at his teaching.
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together, and one of them who was versed in the law questioned him, making trial of him: Master, in the law, which is the great commandment? He said: That you shall love the Lord your God in aU your heart and all your spirit and all your mind. That is the great commandment, and the first. There is a second, which is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments all the law and the prophets depend. And when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them, saying: What do you think concerning the Christ? Whose son is he? They said to him: The son of David. He said: How then did David call him in the spirit, Lord, when he said: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right, so that I may put your enemies beneath your feet. But if David calls him Lord, how can he be his son? And none of them could answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day to question him any more.
t Then Jesus spoke to the people and to his disciples, saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses. Do and observe all that they tell you, but do not do as they do; for they speak, and do nothing. They tie up heavy bundles and put them on the shoulders of men, but they will not use one finger to carry them. All they do is done for show, before people; they spread their phylacteries and wear large tassels, they love the foremost couch at the dinners and the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplace, and being called rabbi by the people. Do not let yourselves be called rabbi; for you have one teacher, but you are all brothers. And do not call anyone your father on earth; for you have one father, in heaven. And do not let yourselves be called instructors, since you have one instructor, the Christ. He who is greater than you shall be your servant. He who exalts himself shall be brought low, and he who lowers himself shall be exalted.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut the Kingdom of Heaven in the face of mankind; for neither do you go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to enter go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you sweep the sea and the dry land to make one convert, and when it is done, you make him a son of Gehenna twice over as much as yourselves. Woe to you, blind guides who say: If one swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if one swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound. Fools and blind men, which is greater, the gold or the temple that hallows the gold? Again you say: If one swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if one swears by the offering upon the altar, he is bound. Blind, for which is greater, the offering or the altar that hallows the offering? So one who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is on it; and one who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it; and one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you pay a tenth on the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have passed over what is weightier in the law, the judgment and the mercy and the faith. These you should have cultivated, nor yet passed over the other things. Blind guides, who filter out the gnat but swallow the camel whole. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you scour the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with rapacity and incontinence. Blind Pharisees, scour first the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be also clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like tombs that are whitewashed, which show handsome on the outside, but inside they are full of dead bones and all uncleanness. So you too on the outside seem to men to be just, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just, and say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been guilty of the blood of the prophets. Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill out, then, the measure of your fathers. Serpents, viper's brood, how can you escape the judgment of Gehenna? Therefore, see, I send you the prophets and the wise men and the scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will lash in your synagogues and chase from city to city, so that upon you shall descend all righteous blood that has been poured out upon earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barach, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all this shall descend upon this generation. Jerusalem Jerusalem, who kill the prophets and stone those who have been sent to you, how many times have I wished to gather in your children, as a bird gathers her fledglings under her wings, and you would not let me. Behold, your house is lost. For I tell you, you shall not see me again, until you say: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.