Matthew 22:16-46 ▼

16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, |Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance.

17 So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?|

18 Recognizing their wickedness, Jesus asked, |Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

19 Show me the coin used for the tax.| They brought him a denarius.

20 Then he asked them, |Whose face and name is this?|

21 They told him, |Caesar's.| So he told them, |Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.|

22 When they heard this, they were amazed. Then they left him and went away.

23 That same day some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him,

24 |Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for his brother.'

25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his widow to his brother.

26 The same thing happened with the second brother, and then the third, and finally with the rest of the brothers.

27 Finally, the woman died, too.

28 Now in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be, since all of them had married her?|

29 Jesus answered them, |You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power,

30 because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

31 As for the resurrection from the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God when he said,

32 I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.|

33 When the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching.

34 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they met together in the same place.

35 One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking,

36 |Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?|

37 Jesus told him, |'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

38 This is the greatest and most important commandment.

39 The second is exactly like it: 'You must love your neighbor as yourself.'

40 All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.|

41 While the Pharisees were still gathered, Jesus asked them,

42 |What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?| They told him, |David's.|

43 He asked them, |Then how can David by the Spirit call him 'Lord' when he says,

44 The Lord told my Lord, |Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.|'?

45 If David calls him 'Lord', how can he be his son?|

46 No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.