### Douay Rheims Bible

Matthew 21

## The Gospel According to St. Matthew

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| # Chapter 22
#### 1 | And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:
#### 2 | The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son.
#### 3 | And he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come.
#### 4 | Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.
#### 5 | But they neglected, and went their own ways, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise.
#### 6 | And the rest laid hands on his servants, and having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.
#### 7 | But when the king had heard of it, he was angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city.
#### 8 | Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.
#### 9 | Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.
#### 10 | And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.
#### 11 | And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.
#### 12 | And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was silent.
#### 13 | Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
#### 14 | For many are called, but few are chosen.
#### 15 | Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.
#### 16 | And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.
#### 17 | Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
#### 18 | But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?
#### 19 | Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.
#### 20 | And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
#### 21 | They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.
#### 22 | And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him, went their ways.
#### 23 | That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,
#### 24 | Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up issue to his brother.
#### 25 | Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.
#### 26 | In like manner the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh.
#### 27 | And last of all the woman died also.
#### 28 | At the resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? for they all had her.
#### 29 | And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
#### 30 | For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.
#### 31 | And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:
#### 32 | I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
#### 33 | And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine.
#### 34 | But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together:
#### 35 | And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:
#### 36 | Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
#### 37 | Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
#### 38 | This is the greatest and the first commandment.
#### 39 | And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
#### 40 | On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.
#### 41 | And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,
#### 42 | Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.
#### 43 | He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:
#### 44 | The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?
#### 45 | If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
#### 46 | And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

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