Matthew 22

'Isa answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, ²"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, ³and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come. ⁴Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"' ⁵But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise, ⁶and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. ⁷When the king heard that, he was angry, and he sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

⁸"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy. ⁹Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.' 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. ¹¹But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing, ¹²and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?' He was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.' ¹⁴For many are called, but few chosen."

¹⁵Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. ¹⁶They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of Allah in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone. ¹⁷Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

¹⁸But 'Isa perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Show me the tax money."

They brought to him a denarius.

²⁰He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"

²¹They said to him, "Caesar's."

Then he said to them, "Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to Allah the things that are Allah's."

²²When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

²³On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, ²⁴saying, "Teacher, Musa said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'[1] ²⁵Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother. ²⁶In like manner 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 'Isa answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing Al-Kitab, nor the power of Allah. ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like Allah's angels in heaven. ³¹But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that which was spoken to you by Allah, saying, ³²'I am the God of Ibrahim, and the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub[2]?' Allah is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

³³When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. ³⁴But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together. ³⁵One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. ³⁶"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Taurat?"

³⁷'Isa said to him, "'You shall love Allah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'[3] ³⁸This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.'[4] ⁴⁰The whole Taurat and the Prophets depend on these two commandments."

⁴¹Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, 'Isa asked them a question, ⁴²saying, "What do you think of al-Masih? Whose son is he?"

They said to him, "Of Dawud."

⁴³He said to them, "How then does Dawud in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

⁴⁴'Allah said to my Lord,

"Sit at my right hand,

Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?"'[5]

⁴⁵"If then Dawud calls him Lord, how is he his son?"

⁴⁶No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.