Matthew 22:15-40

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁵ Then Pharisees went away, and took a counsel to take Jesus in word. [Then Pharisees, going away, took a counsel, that they should take him in word.]

¹⁶ And they send to him their disciples, with Herodians, and said [saying], Master, we know, that thou art soothfast, and thou teachest in truth the way of God, and thou carest not of any man [and there is no care, or charge, to thee of any man], for thou beholdest not the person of men.

¹⁷ Therefore say to us, what seemeth to thee. Is it leaveful that tribute be given to the emperor, either nay^[a]?

¹⁸ And when Jesus had known the wickedness of them, he said, Hypocrites, what tempt ye me?

¹⁹ Show ye to me the print of the money. And they brought to him a penny.

²⁰ And Jesus said to them [And Jesus saith to them], Whose is this image, and the writing above?

²¹ They say to him, The emperor's. Then he said to them, Therefore yield ye to the emperor those things that be the emperor's, and to God those things that be of God.^[b]

²² And they heard, and wondered; and they left him, and went away. [And they hearing wondered; and, him left, they went away.]

²³ In that day Sadducees, that say there is no rising again to life [that say there is no rising again], came to him, and asked him,

²⁴ and said, Master, Moses said, if any man is dead [saying, Master, Moses said, if any man be dead], not having a son, that his brother wed his wife, and raise seed to his brother.

²⁵ And there were seven brethren to us; and the first wedded a wife, and is dead. And he had no seed, and left his wife to his brother; [Forsooth seven brethren were with us; and the first, a wife wedded, is dead. And he not having seed, left his wife to his brother;]

²⁶ also the second, and the third, till to the seventh.

²⁷ But the last of all, [also] the woman is dead.

²⁸ Also in the rising again to life [Therefore in the rising again], whose wife of the seven shall she be? for all had her.

²⁹ Jesus answered, and said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the virtue of God.

³⁰ For in the rising again to life, neither they shall wed, neither shall be wedded [For in the rising again, neither they wed, neither be wedded]; but they be as the angels of God in heaven.

³¹ And of the rising again of dead men, have ye not read, that [it] is said of the Lord, that saith to you [that it is said of the Lord, saying to you],

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

³³ And the people hearing [And the companies hearing], wondered on his teaching.

³⁴ And the Pharisees heard that he had put silence to Sadducees, and came together.

³⁵ And one of them, a teacher of the law, asked Jesus, and tempted him, [And one of them, a teacher of the law, asked Jesus, tempting him,]

³⁶ Master, which is a great commandment in the law?

³⁷ Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love thy Lord God, of all thine heart, and in all thy soul, and in all thy mind [Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, of all thine heart, and of all thy soul, and in all thy mind].

³⁸ This is the first and the most commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like to this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁴⁰ In these two commandments hangeth all the law and the prophets.