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For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
Daily Meditation
9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
The Gospel according
to
Matthew
Chapter 22
And Jesus answered
and spake unto them again by parables
1 And Jesus answered
and spake unto them again by parables, and said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is
like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3 and sent forth
his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not
come. 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are
bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed,
and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5 But they made light of it,
and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 and the
remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7 But
when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and
destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then saith he to his
servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the
marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered
together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was
furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw
there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 and he saith unto him,
Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was
speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and
take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
15 Then went the
Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. 16 And
they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we
know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest
thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men. 17 Tell us
therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye
hypocrites? 19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. 20
And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? 21 They say
unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the
things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. 22 When they
had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
23 The same day came
to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
24 saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother
shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. 25 Now there were
with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased,
and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: 26 likewise the second also,
and the third, unto the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died also. 28
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they
all had her. 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. 31
But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was
spoken unto you by God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
34 But when the
Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were
gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a
question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment
in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first
and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets.
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