Douay Rheims Original ↷
Matthew 22 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Banquet
1 AND JESUS answering, spake again in parables to them, saying:📜💬📚
2 The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man being a king, which made a marriage to 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 & fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.📜💬📚
5 But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm, and an other to his merchandise:📜💬📚
6 and the rest laid hands upon his servants, and spitefully entreating them, murdered them.📜💬📚
7 But when the king had heard of it, he was wroth, and sending his hosts, 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 high ways; and whosoever you shall find, call to the marriage.📜💬📚
10 And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, 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 not attired in a wedding garment.📜💬📚
12 And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was dumb.📜💬📚
13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the utter darkness: there shall be weeping & gnashing of teeth.📜💬📚
14 For many be called, but few elect.📜💬📚
Paying Taxes to Caesar
15 Then the Pharisees departing, consulted among them selves for to entrap him in his talk.📜💬📚
16 And they send 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 respect the person of men:📜💬📚
17 Tell us therefore what is thy opinion, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?📜💬📚
18 But JESUS knowing their naughtiness, said: What do you tempt me Hypocrites?📜💬📚
19 Shew me the tribute coin. And they offered him a peny.📜💬📚
20 And JESUS saith to them: Whose is this image and superscription?📜💬📚
21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore the things that are Caesar's, to Caesar: and the things that are God's, to God.📜💬📚
22 And hearing it they marveled, and leaving him went their ways.📜💬📚
Sadducees and the Resurrection
23 That day there came to him the Sadducees, that say there is no resurrection, and asked him,📜💬📚
24 saying: Master, Moyses said, If a man die, not having a child, that his brother marry his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.📜💬📚
25 And 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 even to the seventh.📜💬📚
27 And last of all, the woman died also.📜💬📚
28 In the Resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? For they all had her.📜💬📚
29 And JESUS answering, said to them: You do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.📜💬📚
30 For in the resurrection neither shall they marry nor be married: but are as the Angels of God in Heaven.📜💬📚
31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken of God saying to you.📜💬📚
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.📜💬📚
33 And the multitudes hearing it, marveled at his doctrine.📜💬📚
Greatest Commandment
34 But the Pharisees hearing that he had put the Sadducees to silence, came together:📜💬📚
35 and one of them a doctor of law asked of him, tempting him:📜💬📚
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?📜💬📚
37 JESUS said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.📜💬📚
38 This is the greatest & the first commandment.📜💬📚
39 And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.📜💬📚
40 On these two commandments dependeth the whole Law and the Prophets.📜💬📚
Whose Son Is the Christ?
41 And the Pharisees being assembled, JESUS asked them📜💬📚
42 saying: What is your opinion 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 put thine enemies the foot-stool of thy feet?📜💬📚
45 If David therefore call him Lord, how is he his son?📜💬📚
46 And no man could answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day ask him any more.📜💬📚
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