✧1Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: ✧2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. ✧3He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. ✧4Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ ✧5But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business. ✧6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. ✧7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city. ✧8Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.
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✧9Go therefore to the crossroads and invite to the banquet as many as you can find.’
✧10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
✧11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
✧12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
✧13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
✧15Then the Pharisees went out and conspired to trap Jesus in His words.
✧16They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.
✧17So tell us what You think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
✧18But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
✧19Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.
✧20“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
✧21“Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
✧22And when they heard this, they were amazed. So they left Him and went away.
✧23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
✧24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
✧25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.
✧26The same thing happened to the second and third brothers, down to the seventh.