Matthew 22

1Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,Cross-references: Matt 9:15 · Matt 12:43 · Matt 13:3 · Matt 20:1 · Matt 21:28 · Mark 4:33 · +2 more

2“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,Cross-references: Ps 45:10 · Matt 13:24 · Matt 13:31 · Matt 13:44 · Matt 25:1 · Luke 14:16 · +4 more

3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:13 · Ps 68:11 · Ps 81:10 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 9:1 · Isa 30:15 · +22 more

4Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!”’Cross-references: Neh 9:17 · Ps 86:5 · Prov 9:1 · Song 5:1 · Matt 21:36 · Matt 22:8 · +10 more

5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · Gen 25:34 · Ps 106:24 · Prov 1:7 · Prov 1:24 · Matt 13:22 · +11 more

6and the rest grabbed his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.Cross-references: Matt 5:10 · Matt 10:12 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 21:35 · Matt 23:34 · John 15:19 · +6 more

7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 13:2 · Jer 51:20 · Dan 9:26 · Joel 2:11 · +10 more

8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren’t worthy.Cross-references: Matt 10:11 · Matt 10:37 · Luke 20:35 · Luke 21:36 · Acts 13:46 · 2Thess 1:5 · +2 more

9Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the wedding feast.’Cross-references: Prov 1:20 · Prov 8:1 · Prov 9:4 · Isa 55:1 · Isa 55:6 · Ezek 21:21 · +6 more

10Those servants went out into the highways and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.Cross-references: Matt 13:38 · Matt 13:47 · Matt 22:11 · Matt 25:1 · Matt 25:10 · 1Cor 6:9 · +7 more

11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,Cross-references: 2Ki 10:22 · Ps 45:13 · Isa 52:1 · Isa 61:3 · Isa 64:6 · Lam 5:22 · +18 more

12and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:9 · Job 5:16 · Ps 107:42 · Jer 2:23 · Jer 2:26 · Matt 5:20 · +7 more

13Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’Cross-references: Ps 37:12 · Ps 112:10 · Isa 52:1 · Dan 3:20 · Matt 8:12 · Matt 12:29 · +15 more

14For many are called, but few chosen.”Cross-references: Matt 7:13 · Matt 20:16 · Matt 24:22 · Luke 13:23 · 2Pet 1:10 · Rev 17:14

15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Ps 41:6 · Ps 56:5 · Ps 57:6 · Ps 59:3 · Isa 29:21 · +6 more

16They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone.Cross-references: Deut 33:9 · 1Ki 22:14 · Job 32:21 · Ps 5:9 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 55:21 · +29 more

17Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”Cross-references: Deut 17:14 · Ezra 4:13 · Ezra 7:24 · Neh 5:4 · Neh 9:37 · Jer 42:2 · +10 more

18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?Cross-references: Matt 16:1 · Matt 19:3 · Mark 2:8 · Mark 12:5 · Luke 5:22 · Luke 9:47 · +6 more

19Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.Cross-references: Matt 18:28 · Matt 20:2 · Rev 6:6

20He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”Cross-references: Luke 20:24

21They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”Cross-references: Prov 24:21 · Dan 3:16 · Dan 6:10 · Dan 6:20 · Mal 1:6 · Mal 3:8 · +8 more

22When they heard it, they marveled, and left him and went away.Cross-references: Prov 26:4 · Matt 10:16 · Matt 22:33 · Matt 22:46 · Mark 12:12 · Luke 20:25 · +3 more

23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,Cross-references: Matt 3:7 · Matt 16:6 · Mark 12:18 · Luke 20:27 · Acts 4:1 · Acts 5:17 · +3 more

24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.’Cross-references: Gen 38:8 · Gen 38:11 · Deut 25:5 · Ruth 1:11 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 22:16 · +4 more

25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.Cross-references: Mark 12:19 · Luke 20:29 · Heb 9:27

26In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh.

27After them all, the woman died.

28In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

29But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Job 19:25 · Ps 16:9 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 49:14 · Ps 73:25 · +12 more

30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Zech 3:7 · Matt 13:43 · Matt 18:10 · Matt 24:38 · Mark 12:24 · +7 more

31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,Cross-references: Matt 9:13 · Matt 12:3 · Matt 12:7 · Matt 21:16 · Matt 21:42

32‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”Cross-references: Ex 3:6 · Ex 3:15 · Mark 12:26 · Luke 20:37 · Acts 7:32 · Heb 11:16

33When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.Cross-references: Matt 7:28 · Matt 22:22 · Mark 6:2 · Mark 12:17 · Luke 2:47 · Luke 4:22 · +2 more

34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.Cross-references: Isa 41:5 · Matt 12:14 · Matt 25:3 · Mark 12:28 · John 11:47 · Acts 5:24 · +2 more

35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.Cross-references: Matt 22:18 · Mark 10:2 · Luke 7:30 · Luke 10:25 · Luke 11:45 · Luke 11:52 · +2 more

36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”Cross-references: Hos 8:12 · Matt 5:19 · Matt 15:6 · Matt 23:23 · Mark 12:28 · Luke 11:42

37Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’Cross-references: Deut 6:5 · Deut 10:12 · Deut 30:6 · Mark 12:29 · Mark 12:33 · Luke 10:27 · +3 more

38This is the first and great commandment.

39A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’Cross-references: Lev 19:18 · Matt 19:19 · Mark 12:31 · Luke 10:27 · Rom 13:9 · Rom 15:2 · +3 more

40The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”Cross-references: Matt 7:12 · John 1:17 · Rom 3:19 · Rom 13:9 · 1Tim 1:5 · James 2:8 · +2 more

41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,Cross-references: Matt 22:15 · Matt 22:34 · Mark 12:35 · Luke 20:41

42saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”Cross-references: Isa 7:13 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 11:1 · Jer 23:5 · Ezek 34:23 · Amos 9:11 · +17 more

43He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,Cross-references: 2Sam 23:2 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 2:26 · Acts 1:16 · Acts 2:30 · Heb 3:7 · +3 more

44‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’?Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 63:1 · Luke 19:27 · +11 more

45“If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”Cross-references: John 8:58 · Rom 1:3 · Rom 9:5 · Phil 2:6 · 1Tim 3:16 · Heb 2:14 · +1 more

46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.Cross-references: Job 32:15 · Isa 50:2 · Matt 21:27 · Mark 12:34 · Luke 13:17 · Luke 14:6 · +3 more