1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come. 4“Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ 5“But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 8“Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.9So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.12He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless. 13“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 14“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax⚓ to Caesar or not?” 18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?19Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” 21“Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
Marriage at the Resurrection
23That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?” 29Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.31But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you,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.” 33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Greatest Commandment
34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’⚓38This is the first and greatest commandment.39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’⚓40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Whose Son Is the Messiah?
41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied. 43He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says, 44“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’⚓ 45If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”46No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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Pev lug has txug rooj tshoob
(Lk. 14:15-24)
1Yexu has dua pev lug rua puab tas, 2“Ntuj Ceeb Tsheej pev ib yaam le ib tug vaajntxwv kws npaaj rooj tshoob rua nwg tug tub, 3mas khaiv nwg cov qhev moog hu cov qhua kws caw tuaj noj tshoob, tassws puab tsw kaam tuaj. 4Nwg rov khaiv dua ib co tub qhe moog has tas, ‘Ca le has rua cov kws tub caw hov tas, Kuv tub npaaj nqaj qhau hab kuv tub tua tej nyuj hab tej mivnyuas nyuj kws fwb tav taag lawm, txhua yaam tub npaaj txhwj lawm. Mej ca le tuaj noj tshoob lauj!’ 5Tassws puab tsw quav ntsej le, ib tug moog ua laj ua teb, ib tug moog ua laag ua luam, 6dua le cov tseed ua phem rua nwg cov qhev hab muab tua pov tseg. 7Vaajntxwv npau tawg heev nwg txhad tso nwg cov tub rog moog ua kuas cov kws tua tuabneeg hov puam tsuaj hab muab puab lub moos hlawv pov tseg. 8Nwg has rua nwg cov tub qhe tas, ‘Rooj tshoob npaaj txhwj lawm, tassws cov kws caw hov tsw tswm nyog tuaj noj. 9Vem le nuav ca le tawm moog tom tej kev tshuam ntswb leejtwg kuj hu tuaj noj tshoob.’ 10Cov tub qhe hov txhad tawm moog tom tej kev hab hu txhua tug kws puab ntswb tsw has tug zoo tug phem, txhad muaj qhua puv nkaus chaav tsev ua tshoob. 11“Thaus tug vaajntxwv hov lug saib cov qhua, nwg pum ib tug tsw naav tsoog tsho ua tshoob, 12tes txawm has rua tug hov tas, ‘Kwvluag 'e, ua caag koj tuaj ntawm nuav tsw naav tsoog tsho ua tshoob?’ Tug hov has tsw taug ib lus le. 13Vaajntxwv has rua cov tub qhe tas, ‘Ca le muab tug nuav khi teg khi taw laim rua saab nrau kws tsaus ntuj nti, qhov ntawd yuav muaj kev quaj qes nav quas qawv.’ 14Cov kws caw hu muaj coob, kuas cov kws xaiv tau muaj tsawg.”
Them se rua Xixa
(Mk. 12:13-17; Lk. 20:20-26)
15Thaus ntawd cov Falixai moog sablaaj saib yuav nyaag Yexu tej lug le caag. 16Puab txawm khaiv puab cov thwjtim hab Helauj cov moog thom Yexu has tas, “Xwbfwb, peb paub tas koj yog ib tug ncaaj nceeg hab koj qha Vaajtswv txuj kev lawv le muaj tseeb hab tsw ua lawv le leejtwg lub sab nyam tsua qhov koj tsw saib leejtwg ntsej muag. 17Yog le nuav, thov koj qha rua peb saib koj xaav le caag. Tswm nyog them se rua Xixa los tsw them?” 18Yexu paub qhov kws puab xaav phem, nwg txhad has tas, “Cov nam tuabneeg ncauj lug zoo sab phem, mej tuaj swm kuv ua daabtsw? 19Ca le muab lub nyaj them se hov rua kuv saib.” Puab txhad muab ib lub ntenalia rua nwg. 20Yexu has rua puab tas, “Lub ntsej muag hab lub npe kws txaug nuav yog leejtwg?” 21Puab teb tas, “Yog Xixa le.” Yexu txawm has rua puab tas, “Yog le nuav yaam kws yog Xixa le ca le muab rua Xixa, yaam kws yog Vaajtswv le ca le muab rua Vaajtswv.” 22Thaus puab nov tej lug hov puab xaav tsw thoob, puab txawm ncaim Yexu moog lawm.
Qhov kws caj sawv rov lug
(Mk. 12:18-27; Lk. 20:27-40)
23Tuab nub ntawd cov Xantukai kws qha has tas tsw muaj qhov kws sawv huv qhov tuag lug txawm tuaj cuag Yexu. Puab txhad thom Yexu 24has tas, “Xwbfwb, Mauxe tub has tas, ‘Yog leejtwg tuag lawm tsw tau muaj mivnyuas, mas nwg ib tug kwvtij yuav tsum yuav tug puj ntsuag hov txhad rhawv tau tug kws tuag le keeb kwm ca.’⚓25Peb cov muaj xyaa tug kwvtij. Tug hlub muaj quaspuj lawm le tuag tsw tau muaj mivnyuas, tseg tug quaspuj rua tug kwv yuav ua quaspuj. 26Mas tug ob tug peb moog txug tug xyaa kuj tuag taag ib yaam nkaus. 27Thaus kawg tug quaspuj hov kuj tuag lawm. 28Vem le nuav nub kws caj sawv rov lug, tug quaspuj hov yuav ua xyaa leej hov tug twg le quaspuj, tsua qhov nwg tub ua xyaa leej hov le quaspuj lawm?” 29Yexu teb puab tas, “Mej yuam kev lawm, mej tsw paub Vaajtswv txujlug hab tsw paub Vaajtswv tug fwjchim. 30Thaus tuabneeg caj sawv rov lug hov, tsw muaj kev sws yuav ua quaspuj quasyawg lawm, yuav zoo ib yaam le cov tubkhai ntuj xwb. 31Has txug qhov kws sawv huv qhov tuag rov lug, mej tsw tau nyeem tej kws Vaajtswv has rua mej lov? Nwg has tas, 32‘Kuv yog Aplahaa tug Vaajtswv, yog Yiha tug Vaajtswv hab yog Yakhauj tug Vaajtswv.’⚓ Vaajtswv tsw yog cov tuabneeg tuag tug Vaajtswv, nwg yog cov tuabneeg caj tug Vaajtswv.” 33Thaus cov tuabneeg hov nov, puab kuj phemfwj rua Yexu tej lug qhuab qha.
Nqai kevcai kws tseem ceeb dua ndais
(Mk. 12:28-34; Lk. 10:25-28)
34Thaus cov Falixai nov tas Yexu ua rua cov Xantukai twg kev tsw muaj lug has lawm, puab txawm sau zog ua ke, 35mas ib tug xwbfwb kws paub cai txawm swm nug Yexu has tas, 36“Xwbfwb, txuj kevcai nqai twg tseem ceeb dua ndais?” 37Yexu has rua nwg tas, “ ‘Koj yuav tsum hlub tug Tswv kws yog koj tug Vaajtswv kawg sab kawg ntsws, hab kawg koj tug tswvyim.’⚓38Nqai nuav yog thawj nqais hab yog nqai kws tseem ceeb dua ndais. 39Nqai kws ob kuj ib yaam nkaus has tas, ‘Koj yuav tsum hlub kwvtij zej zog ib yaam le koj hlub koj tug kheej.’⚓40Mauxe txuj kevcai hab cov xwbfwb cev lug tej lug qha huvsw nyob taag nrho rua huv ob nqais nuav.”
Tug Kheto yog leejtwg
(Mk. 12:35-37; Lk. 20:41-44)
41Thaus cov Falixai tseed nyob ua ke ntawd, Yexu txawm nug puab 42has tas, “Mej xaav le caag txug tug Kheto? Nwg yog leejtwg le tub?” Puab has rua nwg tas, “Yog Tavi le tub.” 43Yexu txhad nug puab tas, “Yog le ntawd ua caag Vaaj Ntsuj Plig kuas Tavi hu tug Kheto tas ‘tug Tswv’? hab has tas, 44“ ‘Tug Tswv has rua kuv tug tswv tas, “Ca le nyob tsawg ntawm kuv saab xws, moog txug thaus kuv muab koj cov yeeb ncuab tag koj xwb taw.” ’⚓ 45Yog Tavi tub hu tug Kheto tas ‘tug Tswv,’ nwg yuav ua le caag ua tau Tavi le tub?” 46Tsw muaj ib tug twg teb tau Yexu ib lus le. Txwj nub ntawd lug tsw muaj leejtwg muaj cuabkaav nug Yexu dua le lawm.