MODERN LITERAL VERSION

22:1 And Jesus answering, spoke again to them in parables, saying:
22:2 The kingdom of heaven is similar to a certain king, who made* a marriage feast for his son,
22:3 and sent forth his bondservants to call to those who were invited to the marriage feast and they did not wish to come.
22:4 Again he sent forth other bondservants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I prepared my meal; my oxen and my fattened calves are sacrificed and all things are prepared. Come-here to the marriage feast.
22:5 But they neglecting it, went away, one to his own field, another to his merchandise;
22:6 and the rest took-hold of his bondservants and abused them and killed them.
22:7 And the king having heard it was angry, and he having sent his armies, destroyed those murderers and incinerated their city.

22:8 Then he says to his bondservants, The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
22:9 Therefore, go in the thoroughfares of the roads, and as many as you* may find, invite to the marriage feast.
22:10 And those bondservants having gone out into the roads, gathered together all things, as many things as they found, both evil and good and the wedding was filled with people reclining at the table.

22:11 But when the king came in to look at those reclining at the table, he saw a man there not clothed with wedding attire;
22:12 and he says to him, Comrade, how did you come in here not having on your wedding attire? And he was dumbfounded.
22:13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away and cast him out into the outer darkness– the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.
22:14 For* many are called, but few are the chosen.

22:15 Then the Pharisees went away and took counsel on how they might ensnare him in his words.
22:16 And they send their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth and do not care concerning anyone 's appearance; for* you do not look to the countenance of men.
22:17 Therefore tell us, What do you think? Is it legal to give tribute to Caesar or not?

22:18 But Jesus having known their wickedness, said, Why do you* test me, you* hypocrites?
22:19 Show me the tribute coin. And they brought to him a denarius.
22:20 And he says to them, Whose face is this image and inscription?
22:21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Therefore give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.
22:22 And when they heard it, they marveled, and went away, leaving him.

22:23 In that day the Sadducees came to him, saying that there is no resurrection and they asked him,
22:24 saying, Teacher, Moses said, If anyone dies, having no children, his brother will marry his wife and will raise* up seed to his brother. {Deut. 25:5}
22:25 Now seven brethren were with us and the first having married, but after he was dead*, his wife had no seed left to his brother;
22:26 likewise also the second and the third, to the seventh.
22:27 But after them all, the woman also died.
22:28 Therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven in the resurrection? For* they all had her as a wife.

22:29 But Jesus answering, said to them, You* are being misled, by not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
22:30 For* in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are betrothed, but are like messengers of God in heaven.
22:31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you* not read what was spoken to you* by God, saying,
22:32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? {Ex. 3:6} God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
22:33 And when the crowds heard it, they were astounded at his teaching.
{Mk 12:28-34 & Mt 22:34-40 & Lk 20:40.}

22:34 But the Pharisees gathered themselves together, having heard that he had hushed the Sadducees.
22:35 And one out of them, a professor of the law, asked a question, testing him and saying,
22:36 Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law?

22:37 And Jesus said to him, You will love* the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. {Deut. 6:5}
22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
22:39 And the second commandment is similar to it, You will love* your neighbor like yourself. {Lev. 19:18}
22:40 In these two commandments hangs the whole law and the prophets.

22:41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
22:42 saying, What do you* think concerning the Christ? Whose son is he?
They say to him, David's.

22:43 He says to them, Then* how does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
22:44 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right, until I should place your enemies under the footstool of your feet? {Ps. 110:1}
22:45 Therefore, if David calls him Lord, how is he his son?
22:46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day forth to ask him any more questions.