Matthew 22:3-33 And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage-feast, but they would not come.

Lamsa⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage-feast, but they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent other servants and said, Tell those who are invited, Behold my supper is ready, and my oxen and fatlings are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the marriage- feast. ⁵ But they sneered at it, and went away, one to his field, another to his business; ⁶ And the rest seized his servants and insulted them, and killed them. ⁷ When the king heard it he was angry; and he sent out his armies and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. ⁸ Then he said to his servants, Now the marriage-feast is ready, and those who were invited were unworthy. ⁹ Go, therefore, to the main roads, and whomever you may find, invite them to the marriage- feast. ¹⁰ So the servants went out to the roads and gathered together every one they could find, bad and good; and the wedding-house was filled with guests. ¹¹ When the king entered to see the guests, he saw there a man who was not wearing wedding garments. ¹² And he said to him, My friend, how did you enter here, when you do not have wedding garments? And he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Bind his hands and his feet and take him out into darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ¹⁴ For many are invited, and few are chosen. ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went away and took counsel how to trap him by a word. ¹⁶ So they sent to him their disciples together with the Herodians, and they said to him, Teacher, we know that you are true, and you teach the way of God justly; and you do not favor any man, for you do not discriminate between men. ¹⁷ Tell us, therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay head-tax to Caesar, or not? ¹⁸ But Jesus knew their evil, and said, Why do you tempt me, O hypocrites? ¹⁹ Show me the head-tax penny. And they brought to him a penny. ²⁰ And Jesus said to them, Whose is this image and inscription? ²¹ They said, CaesarÆs. He said to them, Give therefore to Caesar what is CaesarÆs, and to God what is GodÆs. ²² And when they heard it, they were amazed; and they left him and went away. ²³ That same day the Sadducees came and said to him, There is no resurrection of the dead; and they asked him, ²⁴ And said to him, Teacher, Moses has told us, If a man die without sons, let his brother take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers; the first married and died, and because he had no sons, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ Likewise the second, also the third, up to the seventh. ²⁷ And after them all the woman also died. ²⁸ Therefore at the resurrection, to which of these seven will she be a wife? for they all married her. ²⁹ Jesus answered, and said to them, You err, because you do not understand the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For at the resurrection of the dead, they neither marry women, nor are women given to men in marriage, but they are like the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, saying, ³² I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob? And yet God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. ³³ And when the people heard it, they were amazed at his teaching.