Matthew 22:1-21 ▼

1 And Iesus answered, and spake vnto the agayne by parables, & sayde:

2 The kingdome of heauen is like vnto a kynge, which maried his sonne.

3 And sent forth his seruauntes, to call the gestes vnto the mariage, & they wolde not come.

4 Agayne, he sent forth other seruauntes, and sayde: Tell the gestes: Beholde, I haue prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fed catell are kylled, and all thinges are readye, come to the mariage.

5 But they made light of it, and wente their wayes: one to his hussbandrye, another to his marchaundise.

6 As for the remnaut, they toke his seruauntes, and intreated the shamefully, and slew the.

7 When the kynge herde that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warryers, and destroyed those murtherers, and set fyre vpon their cite.

8 Then sayde he vnto his seruauntes: The mariage in dede is prepared, but the gestes were not worthy.

9 Go youre waye out therfore in to ye hye wayes, and as many as ye fynde, byd them to the mariage.

10 And the seruauntes wete out in to the hye wayes, and gathered together as many as they coulde fynde, both good and bad, & the tables were all full.

11 Then the kynge wete in, to se the gestes, and spyed there a man that had not on a weddynge garment,

12 and sayde vnto him: Frende, how camest thou in hither, & hast not on a weddyinge garment? And he was euen spechlesse.

13 Then sayde the kynge vnto his seruauntes: Take and bynde him hande and fote, & cast him into ye vtter darcknes: there shal be waylinge and gnasshinge of teth.

14 For many be called, but few are chose.

15 Then wente the Pharises, and toke councell, how they might tangle him in his wordes,

16 and sent vnto him their disciples with Herodes officers, and sayde: Master, we knowe that thou art true, and teachest the waye of God truly, and carest for no ma: for thou regardest not the outwarde appearaunce of me.

17 Tell us therfore, how thinkest thou? Is it laufulll to geue tribute vnto the Emperoure, or not?

18 Now wha Iesus perceaued their wickednes, he sayde: O ye ypocrites, why tepte ye me?

19 Shewe me ye tribute money. And they toke hi a peny.

20 And he saide vnto the: Whose is this ymage and superscription?

21 They sayde vnto him: The Emperours. Then sayde he vnto them: Geue therfore vnto the Emperour, that which is the Emperours: and geue vnto God, that which is Gods.