Matthew 22

Matthew 22:1

• Once more Jesus spoke to

• them in
• them again in

• parables, saying:
• parables, saying,
• parables:
• parables.

Matthew 22:2

• “The Kingdom of
• “The kingdom of
• The kingdom of
• ‘The kingdom of

• Heaven
• heaven,”
• heaven

• is like. A
• is like a
• may be compared to a

• king who
• king
• certain king who
• certain king, who

• gave a
• prepared a
• made a

• wedding feast for
• wedding banquet for
• marriage feast for
• wedding for
• feast for

• his

• son
• son.
• son,
• son’s wedding;
• son’s wedding.

Matthew 22:3

• He

• sent
• sent out

• his servants to tell the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to

• come.
• come!

Matthew 22:4

• “Again
• Again,
• Again
• “Then
• Then
• A second time

• he

• sent
• sent out
• sent some

• other
• more

• servants,
• slaves,
• slaves
• servants and

• saying,
• saying, ‘
• said, ‘

• Tell those who

• have been
• are

• invited, “
• invited,

• Behold, Ihave prepared my

• dinner,
• dinner.
• dinner:
• dinner;
• banquet;
• banquet,

• my oxen and my fat calves

• have been
• are
• have all been

• slaughtered, and
• killed and
• killed, and
• killed;
• killed.
• butchered, and
• butchered and
• killed, and all

• Everything
• everything
• things

• is
• are

• ready.
• ready;
• prepared;
• prepared.

• Come to the
• come to the

• wedding.
• wedding
• marriage

• feast!’
• feast! ”’
• feast.
• feast.’
• feast. ”’
• banquet.’
• banquet. ”’
• ”’

Matthew 22:5

• But they paid no
• “But they paid no
• But they made light of

• attention and
• it, and
• it and

• went

• away, one to
• their ways, one to
• off, one to
• their way, one to
• off to

• his
• his own
• their

• farm, another to

• his
• their

• business.
• business,
• business;
• merchandise;
• merchandise,
• store,
• store.
• businesses.

Matthew 22:6

• The rest
• while the rest,
• while the rest
• And the rest
• and the rest
• The others
• And the others
• and the others
• And the others,
• Others
• Some of the other people

• seized
• grabbed the
• grabbed
• seizing

• his servants,
• his slaves,
• servants,
• his servants, and

• mistreated
• treated
• beat
• abused

• them and
• them, and
• them shamefully, and

• killed them.

Matthew 22:7

• ‘The king
• The king
• “The king
• When the king
• “When the king

• was
• was very

• angry.
• furious!
• furious.
• angry, and
• angry and
• enraged.
• furious, and
• furious and
• enraged and
• enraged, and

• he sent
• He sent
• sent
• he sent out

• his

• troops,
• army to
• troops and
• armies,
• soldiers to

• destroyed those
• kill the
• kill those
• put those
• destroy those

• murderers and
• murderers, and
• murderers to death, and
• murderers to death and

• burned
• set
• burn
• burned down
• burn down

• their

• city.
• city on fire.
• town.

Matthew 22:8

• “Then
• Then
• “Then the

• he
• king

• said to his

• servants, “The
• servants ‘The
• servants, ‘The
• slaves, ‘The

• wedding
• wedding feast
• banquet

• is

• ready. But those who
• ready, but those who
• prepared, but those who

• were

• invited
• asked to

• were
• did

• not
• n’t

• worthy.
• good enough.
• worthy to come.
• deserve the honor.
• deserve it.
• deserve to come.

Matthew 22:9

• So
• Therefore
• Therefore,

• go to the
• go into the

• street corners and
• main streets, and
• main streets and

• invite
• invite to the

• everyone you

• find to the
• see. Tell them to come to
• find to come to the

• wedding.”
• wedding.’
• banquet.”
• banquet.’
• wedding banquet.’
• wedding feast.’
• my feast.’

Matthew 22:10

• So the servants
• “The servants
• The servants
• So those servants
• Those slaves
• And those slaves

• went out into the

• streets, and
• streets and
• roads and

• gathered all they

• found, both
• found,

• bad and
• evil and

• good. And the
• good, and the
• good; and the
• good. The

• wedding hall was

• filled with
• packed with
• full of

• guests.
• people.
• dinner guests.

Matthew 22:11

• “But when the king
• But when the king
• But, when the king
• “ When the king
• When the king
• ‘When the king
• “When the king
• The king
• ‘The king
• “The king

• came in to
• went in to

• see the
• look at the
• meet the
• view the

• guests.
• guests,
• guests
• dinner guests,

• He
• he

• saw a
• noticed a
• saw there a
• saw one

• man who
• man there who

• was

• not
• n’t

• wearing the
• dressed in the

• right clothes for a wedding.

Matthew 22:12

• and he
• And he
• He
• So he

• said to

• him, ‘
• him, “My
• him ‘My

• Friend, how
• friend, how

• did you

• get in
• come in
• came in

• here without
• here without a

• wedding

• clothes?’ “The
• clothes?’ The
• clothes?’ But
• garment?’ And
• garment?” And the
• garment?’ And the

• man
• he

• was
• had nothing to
• said
• had no

• speechless.
• say.
• nothing.

Matthew 22:13

• “Then the
• Then the

• king

• said to the
• told the
• told some

• servants, ‘
• attendants, “
• attendants ‘
• attendants, ‘
• attendants,

• Tie
• Bind
• Tie this

• him
• his
• him up,
• him up
• man’s

• hand and
• hands and

• foot, and
• foot and
• feet, and
• feet and

• throw
• cast

• him into the
• him out into the

• outer

• darkness. In that
• darkness; in that

• place there will be

• weeping and
• wailing and

• gnashing of
• grinding of

• teeth.’
• teeth.”
• teeth.
• teeth!’

Matthew 22:14

• for many
• “For many
• For many
• “Many
• Many
• ‘Many people
• “Many people

• are

• called but
• called, but
• invited but
• invited, but
• invited, but only a
• invited. But only a

• few

• are chosen.
• are chosen.”
• are chosen.’
• chosen.’
• chosen.
• chosen.”

Matthew 22:15

• Then the Pharisees

• went and
• went

• plotted how to

• trap
• entangle

• him in his own

• words,
• words.

Matthew 22:16

• [Translation pending]

Matthew 22:17

• Tell

• us
• us,

• then, what
• therefore, what

• do

• you
• You

• think.
• think?

• Is it

• right to
• lawful to
• permitted to

• pay
• pay the

• taxes to
• taxes to the

• Caesar or
• Caesar, or
• Emperor or
• emperor, or
• emperor or
• Emperor, or

• not?
• not?”
• not?’

Matthew 22:18

• But Jesus
• But Jesus,
• Jesus

• knew
• perceived
• aware of
• was aware of
• perceiving

• their

• wickedness, and
• evil intent,

• said, Why
• said, “Why
• said. “Why
• said, “

• are
• do
• Hypocrites! Why are

• you

• testing
• test

• me?
• Me,
• me,

• you
• You

• hypocrites?

Matthew 22:19

• show
• “Show
• Show

• Me the
• me the
• Me a
• me a

• coin
• coin for the
• tribute
• piece of
• money
• tax

• used for the tax.” So they
• money.” They
• used for paying the tax.” They

• brought
• showed
• brought to

• Him a
• him a
• him the

• denarius.
• denarius,
• coin.
• coin,
• silver coin.
• silver coin,
• Roman coin.
• Roman coin,

Matthew 22:20

• and he
• And he
• And He
• He
• Jesus
• And Jesus
• Then he

• said to
• asked

• them, “Whose

• image
• head
• portrait
• picture

• is this? And whose
• is this and whose
• is this, and whose
• is this? Whose

• inscription?”
• inscription?’
• title?”
• title?’

Matthew 22:21

• ‘Caesar
• “Caesar
• “The Emperor

• ’s’,
• ’s,”

• they

• replied.
• answered.

• Then

• He
• he
• Jesus

• said to

• them, ‘
• them, “
• them: “

• Give to Caesar what is Caesar

• ’s; and to
• ’s, and to
• ’s and to

• God what
• God the things that

• are
• is

• God

• ’s.”
• ’s.

Matthew 22:22

• When they
• And when they

• heard this
• heard this,
• heard that,
• heard that

• they were

• amazed;
• amazed.
• amazed. So
• amazed; and

• they
• They

• left

• him, and
• Him and
• him and

• went away.

Matthew 22:23

• That same

• day the
• day

• Sadducees, who
• Sadducees who
• Sadducees (who

• say there
• say that there
• deny that there

• is no
• is a

• resurrection—
• resurrection.
• resurrection
• resurrection——
• resurrection,
• resurrection)
• resurrection; and
• resurrection: and
• resurrection, and

• came to
• they asked
• came up to

• Him and asked Him,
• him and asked him,

Matthew 22:24

• saying,
• saying, “
• Saying,
• saying: “
• They said, “

• Teacher, Moses

• said, If a
• said, ‘If a
• said, if a
• said that if a

• man

• dies, having no
• dies having no
• dies without having
• dies without

• children, his brother

• must
• shall
• should
• is to

• marry his

• widow, and
• widow and
• wife and
• wife, and

• raise up
• have
• father
• raise a

• children for
• offspring for
• descendants for
• family for

• his

• brother.’
• brother.”
• brother.

Matthew 22:25

• Now there were seven
• There were seven
• Once there were seven

• brothers among
• brothers with

• us; the
• us. The

• first
• first one

• married and
• got married and
• got married, and
• married but

• died, and since
• died. Since
• died.

• He
• he

• had no

• children
• children,

• he left his

• wife to
• widow to

• his

• brother;
• brother.

Matthew 22:26

• Then the second brother also died. The same thing happened to the third brother and all the other brothers.

Matthew 22:27

• Last of all, the
• Last of all the
• Finally, the
• Finally the
• After them all, the
• At last the

• woman

• died.
• died also.
• herself died.

Matthew 22:28

• In the resurrection,
• In the resurrection
• At the resurrection,

• therefore, whose
• therefore whose
• then, whose

• wife
• wife of the seven

• will
• shall

• she

• be, for
• be? For
• be of the seven? for
• be of the seven? For
• be
• be?

• they all

• had
• had married
• had been married to

• her.”
• her?
• her.’
• her?’
• her?”
• her.

Matthew 22:29

• Jesus
• But Jesus

• answered, “
• answered
• answered: ‘
• answered and said to
• said to
• replied, “

• them, ‘You
• them, “You
• You

• are

• wrong, because
• wrong because
• mistaken, because
• mistaken because
• mistaken,
• deceived, because

• you
• not

• don’t know the
• knowing the
• do not know the
• know neither the

• scriptures nor the
• Scriptures nor the
• scriptures, nor the
• Scriptures, nor the
• Scriptures or the
• scriptures or the

• power of

• God!
• God.
• God;

Matthew 22:30

• For in the resurrection
• At the resurrection,
• At the resurrection

• they neither
• people
• they

• marry, nor
• marry nor
• will neither marry nor

• are
• be

• given in

• marriage, but
• marriage but
• marriage. They will
• marriage; they will

• are like
• be like the
• are like the
• are as

• angels in
• angels of God in

• heaven.

Matthew 22:31

• And as for the resurrection of the
• But concerning the resurrection of the
• ‘But about the resurrection of the
• But about the resurrection of the
• Now concerning the resurrection of the

• dead,
• dead—

• have
• did

• you

• not
• never

• read what
• read that which

• was

• spoken to
• said to

• you by

• God,
• God—
• God:
• God, saying,

Matthew 22:32

• ‘I
• I
• “I
• He said, ‘I
• He said, “I

• am the God of

• Abraham, the
• Abraham and the
• Abraham, and the

• God of

• Isaac and the
• Isaac, and the

• God of

• Jacob.’
• Jacob?’
• Jacob?
• Jacob”?
• Jacob’?
• Jacob
• Jacob.”

• ’? He
• He
• God

• is the God of the living,

• not of the
• not the

• dead.”

Matthew 22:33

• When the crowds
• When the people
• And when the crowd
• And when the crowds
• And when the multitudes

• heard this.
• heard this,
• heard

• they
• They
• it, they

• were

• astonished at
• amazed at
• astounded at

• his
• His
• Jesus’

• teaching.
• teaching;

Matthew 22:34

• When the Pharisees
• But when the Pharisees
• The Pharisees
• Now when the Pharisees

• heard that
• heard that the

• He
• he
• Jesus
• Sadducees

• had silenced the

• Sadducees
• Sadducees,

• they

• got
• gathered
• met
• gathered themselves
• came

• together;
• together.
• together
• together,

Matthew 22:35

• and one of them, a
• And one of them, a
• and one of them a
• One of them, an
• And one of them, an
• and one of them, an
• One of them, a
• One of them was an
• Then one of them, a

• lawyer,
• expert in the
• expert,

• asked
• tested

• Him a
• him a

• question,
• question to
• question, to

• test
• testing

• Him.
• him.
• him:
• Him:
• Him,

Matthew 22:36

• Teacher, which
• “Teacher, which
• ‘Teacher, which
• “Teacher, what
• “Teacher,” he
• ‘Master, which

• is the
• asked, “which is the

• greatest commandment in the
• great commandment in the
• most important commandment in the

• law?
• law?”
• Law?’
• Law?”

Matthew 22:37

• Jesus
• He
• And he
• And He

• said to
• replied, “
• replied: “‘
• replied, “‘
• answered, “
• answered
• answered:

• Love the
• him, “‘You shall love the
• him, “You shall love the
• him, “‘Love the
• him, “Love the
• You must love the
• him, ‘You must love the
• him, “‘You must love the

• Lord
• Lord,

• your God with all your heart,

• soul, and with all
• soul and with all
• soul and all
• soul, and all
• soul and
• soul, and

• your mind.”
• your mind.
• your mind.’
• mind.’
• mind.

Matthew 22:38

• This is the

• first and
• greatest and
• greatest and the
• great and

• first
• most important
• greatest
• great

• commandment.
• command.

Matthew 22:39

• The second
• And the second
• And the second command
• The second most important commandment
• And a second

• is like
• is like the
• is

• it, ‘You
• it: ‘You
• it: You
• it, You
• it:
• it. ‘
• it. “
• it: ‘
• first: ‘

• Love
• shall love
• must love

• your neighbor as

• yourself.’
• yourself.
• yourself.”

Matthew 22:40

• All the Law and the
• All the law and the
• The whole law and the

• prophets,
• prophets
• Prophets

• depend on these two

• commandments.’
• commandments.
• commandments.”
• commands.”

Matthew 22:41

• While the Pharisees
• Now while the Pharisees

• were

• gathered together.
• gathered together,
• together,
• assembled,
• still there,

• Jesus

• asked
• put this
• questioned

• them,
• them a question,
• them a question.
• them a question:
• question to them—
• question to them:
• them this question,
• them this question:

Matthew 22:42

• “What do
• Saying, What do
• saying, “What do

• you

• think about the
• think of the

• Christ? Whose
• Christ, whose
• Messiah? Whose

• Son
• son

• is

• He?
• he?’
• he?”
• He?”

• They said to him, “David’s.”

Matthew 22:43

• He said to

• them, ‘
• them, “
• them, “How
• them, “How,

• then
• then,
• Then how

• does
• is it that

• David, in the
• David in the
• David by the
• David, by the
• David, inspired by the

• Spirit
• Spirit,

• call
• calls

• Him ‘
• him ‘
• him “
• him

• lord,’
• Lord,
• Lord,’
• Lord’?

• saying,
• saying:
• David said,

Matthew 22:44

• ’The Lord
• “The Lord
• “‘The Lord
• The Lord
• ‘The Lord
• ‘The Master
• The Master

• said to
• declared to

• my
• My

• Lord: “
• lord,
• lord, ‘
• Lord:
• lord, “
• Lord, “
• Lord,
• Lord, ‘

• Sit at
• Sit by
• Sit here at

• my
• My
• me at my

• right

• hand, until
• hand, Until
• hand until
• side, until
• side until
• hand, till
• hand, Till

• I

• put
• make
• place

• your
• Your

• enemies under
• enemies beneath
• enemies

• your
• Your

• feet?
• feet.’
• feet”’?
• feet?’
• feet. ”’
• footstool’?
• footstool?
• footstool”’?
• control. ”’
• control.’

Matthew 22:45

• “If David
• If David
• ‘If David
• If, then, David
• “If then David
• If then David
• If David then
• David

• calls
• called the
• calls the

• Him
• Him ‘
• him ‘
• him “
• him
• Messiah ‘
• Messiah

• lord,’ how
• Lord, how
• Lord,’ how
• Lord”, how
• Lord.’

• can
• can the
• So how can

• he
• Messiah

• be David’s

• son?”
• son?’

Matthew 22:46

• No one was able to answer him a word. From that

• day on, no
• day on no
• day no

• one

• dared to
• dared

• ask
• question

• him any
• Him
• him
• him any more
• him any further

• questions.
• more questions.
• anything.
• question.
• anymore.