Matthew 22 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Jesus responded by telling them another
"God's is like a king who threw a for his son.
He sent his to tell the invited guests to come, but they refused to come.
He sent out another group of servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests: Look, I've prepared an incredible meal — my best cattle and have been butchered and everything is ready. Come to the wedding celebration!'
But they and went about their business — one to his farm, another to his shop.
The rest grabbed his servants, them, and killed them.
The king was He sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city to the ground.
Then he told his servants, 'The wedding celebration is ready, but the people I invited it.
So go out to the and invite everyone you find to the celebration.'
So those servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find — both and — and the wedding hall was packed with guests.
But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man who wasn't wearing
he said, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man had to
Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him up hand and foot and throw him out into the where people will be weeping and their in anguish.'
Because many are but few are
Then the left and plotted how to Jesus in his own words.
They sent their followers to him, along with the "Teacher," they said, "we know you're and that you teach God's way truthfully. You care what anyone thinks of you, because you
So tell us what you think: Is it right to pay to or not?"
But Jesus saw right through their "Why are you trying to set me up, you he said.
"Show me the coin used to pay the tax." They brought him a
"Whose and inscription is this?" he asked them.
"Caesar's," they answered. Then he told them, "So to what belongs to and to God what belongs to God."
When they heard this, they were So they left him alone and went away.
That same day, came to him — they're the ones who say there's no — and asked him a question.
Moses said that if a man dies without having children, his brother must the and have children for his brother.
Now, there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
The same thing happened with the second brother, and the third, all the way down to the seventh.
Finally, the woman died too.
So in the whose wife will she be? Because all seven of them were married to her."
Jesus answered them, because you don't understand the or God's power.
In the resurrection, people don't marry or get married off. They're like the in heaven.
But as for the resurrection of the dead — haven't you read what to you:
'I am the of Abraham, the of Isaac, and the of Jacob'? He's not the of dead people — he's the of the
When the crowds heard this, they were at his teaching.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had the Sadducees, they came together.
One of them, a him with this question:
"Teacher, which commandment in the is the
Jesus said to him, the Lord your God with your whole with your whole and with your whole
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: 'Love your as
Everything in the Law and the on these two commandments."
While the Pharisees were still gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:
"What do you think about The Whose son is he?" They answered, "David's."
He said to them, "Then how is it that David, speaking by the calls him He says:
said to my Lord: Sit at my until I put enemies
If David calls him how can he be just David's son?"
Nobody could say a word in response, and from that day on, no to ask him any more questions.