Matthew 22-23 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

Matthew 22

 ¹And Jesus answering, spoke again in parables to them, saying:

    ²The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son.

    ³And he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come.

    ⁴Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.

    ⁵But they neglected, and went their own ways, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise.

    ⁶And the rest laid hands on his servants, and having treated them contumeliously, put them to death.

    ⁷But when the king had heard of it, he was angry, and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burnt their city.

    ⁸Then he saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited were not worthy.

    ⁹Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find, call to the marriage.

    ¹⁰And his servants going forth into the ways, gathered together all that they found, both bad and good: and the marriage was filled with guests.

    ¹¹And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment.

    ¹²And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? But he was silent.

    ¹³Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.

    ¹⁵Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

    ¹⁶And they sent 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 regard the person of men.

    ¹⁷Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

    ¹⁸But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?

    ¹⁹Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.

    ²⁰And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?

    ²¹They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

    ²²And hearing this they wondered, and leaving him, went their ways.

    ²³That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and asked him,

    ²⁴Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up issue to his brother.

    ²⁵Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his brother.

    ²⁶In like manner the second, and the third, and so on to the seventh.

    ²⁷And last of all the woman died also.

    ²⁸At the resurrection therefore whose wife of the seven shall she be? for they all had her.

    ²⁹And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

    ³⁰For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married; but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.

    ³¹And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken by God, saying to you:

    ³²I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

    ³³And the multitudes hearing it, were in admiration at his doctrine.

    ³⁴But the Pharisees hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, came together:

    ³⁵And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:

    ³⁶Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

    ³⁷Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

    ³⁸This is the greatest and the first commandment.

    ³⁹And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

    ⁴⁰On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.

    ⁴¹And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,

    ⁴²Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.

    ⁴³He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying:

    ⁴⁴The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?

    ⁴⁵If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

    ⁴⁶And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

   

Matthew 23

 ¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

    ²Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

    ³All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.

    ⁴For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

    ⁵And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.

    ⁶And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

    ⁷And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

    ⁸But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.

    ⁹And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.

    ¹⁰Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ.

    ¹¹He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

    ¹²And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

    ¹³But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

    ¹⁴Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

    ¹⁵Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you go round about the sea and the land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him the child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

    ¹⁶Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.

    ¹⁷Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

    ¹⁸And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is a debtor.

    ¹⁹Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

    ²⁰He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things that are upon it:

    ²¹And whosoever shall swear by temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it:

    ²²And he that sweareth by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

    ²³Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.

    ²⁴Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

    ²⁵Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

    ²⁶Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

    ²⁷Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.

    ²⁸So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

    ²⁹Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

    ³⁰And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

    ³¹Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

    ³²Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

    ³³You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

    ³⁴Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

    ³⁵That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

    ³⁶Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

    ³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

    ³⁸Behold, you house shall be left to you, desolate.

    ³⁹For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.