Matthew 22

Question about Paying Taxes Matthew 22:15–22

¹⁵Verse 15. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. ¹⁶Verse 16. They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone. ¹⁷Verse 17. Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” ¹⁸Verse 18. But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites? ¹⁹Verse 19. Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius. ²⁰Verse 20. He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

²¹Verse 21. They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” ²²Verse 22. When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

Question about the Resurrection Matthew 22:23–33

²³Verse 23. On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, ²⁴Verse 24. saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’ ²⁵Verse 25. Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother. ²⁶Verse 26. In the same way, the second also, and the third, to the seventh. ²⁷Verse 27. After them all, the woman died. ²⁸Verse 28. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her.”

²⁹Verse 29. But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. ³⁰Verse 30. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven. ³¹Verse 31. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying, ³²Verse 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.” ³³Verse 33. When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

The Greatest Commandment Matthew 22:34–40

³⁴Verse 34. But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. ³⁵Verse 35. One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. ³⁶Verse 36. “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” ³⁷Verse 37. Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸Verse 38. This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹Verse 39. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

⁴⁰Verse 40. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Jesus Questions the Pharisees Matthew 22:41–46

⁴¹Verse 41. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, ⁴²Verse 42. saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.” ⁴³Verse 43. He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ⁴⁴Verse 44. ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’ ⁴⁵Verse 45. “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” ⁴⁶Verse 46. No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.