Matthew 22
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22 Jesus told them other stories.
2 He said, `The kingdom of heaven is like this. A king made a wedding for his son.
3 The king sent his servants to call the people who had been asked to the wedding. But they would not come.
4 `He sent other servants to call them. He said, "Tell those who were asked to the wedding that my dinner is cooked. The cows and bullocks have been killed. Everything is ready. Come now to the wedding."
5 `The people did not listen, but went away. One went to his farm. One went to his business.
6 The others caught his servants, treated them very badly, and killed them.
7 `The king was very angry. He sent his soldiers to kill the men who had killed his servants. And he burned their city.
8 Then he said to his servants, "The wedding is ready. But those who were asked to come were not good enough.
9 Go out on the roads. Call all the people you find to come to the wedding."
10 `So those servants went out on the roads. They brought all the people they could find, both bad and good people. Then the room was full of people for the wedding.
11 `The king came in to look at the people. He saw one man there who was not wearing the right clothes for a wedding.
12 The king said to him, "My friend, why did you come here without putting on the right clothes for a wedding?" The man did not answer.
13 Then the king said to his servants, "Tie his hands and his feet. Put him in a dark place outside. People there will cry and grind [make a noise with] their teeth."
14 `Many people are asked to come, but only a few are chosen.'
15 Then the Pharisees went away. They planned how to make Jesus say something wrong.
16 They sent their disciples to him with some of Herod's people. They said, `Teacher, we know that you are true. We know that you teach the true way of God. You do not fear any person, or care how great he is.
17 So tell us. What do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or is it not?'
18 Jesus knew they were trying to get him into trouble. So he said to them, `Why are you trying to get me to do wrong? You are not true to yourselves!
19 Show me a piece of money used for tax.' They brought him a piece of money.
20 `Whose picture and name is this?' he asked.
21 They said, `Caesar's'. Then he said to them, `Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. And give to God what belongs to God.'
22 When they heard that, they were surprised. They left him and went away.
23 The same day some of the Sadducees came to Jesus. They say that people do not rise from death.
24 They came to ask him a question. They said, `Teacher, Moses gave us this law: "If a man dies and has no children, then his brother must marry the wife and raise a family for his brother."
25 There were seven brothers among us. The first one married. He died and left no children. So his brother married the wife.
26 The same thing happened to the second brother, and the third one, and all seven of them.
27 Last of all, the woman died.
28 Now then, when people rise from death, which of the seven brothers will have her for his wife? They all married her.'
29 Jesus answered, `You are wrong! You do not know what the holy writings say. And you do not know what power God has.
30 When people rise from death, men and women do not marry. But they are like angels in heaven.
31 People do rise from death! Have you never read what God said to you?
32 He said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." He is not the God of dead people, but of living people.'
33 When the people heard this, they were surprised at his teaching.
34 The Pharisees heard that the Sadducees could not answer Jesus. So they got together.
35 One of them was a man who taught God's law. He asked Jesus a question to try him out.
36 `Teacher,' he said, `which law is the greatest law of all?'
37 Jesus said, ` "Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Love him with all your soul, and love him with all your mind."
38 This is the first and greatest law.
39 The second law of God is like it. "Love your neighbour as you love yourself."
40 All that is written in the books of the law and the books of the prophets is about these two laws.'
41 While the Pharisees were still there, Jesus asked them a question.
42 He said, `What do you think about Christ? Whose son is he?' They said, `He is David's son.'
43 Jesus asked, `Then how can David call him "Lord"? He said, by the Spirit,
44 "The Lord said to my Lord, `Sit beside me until I make you master over your enemies.' "
45 David calls Christ his Lord. How can Christ be David's son?'
46 No one could answer him a word. And after that day, everyone feared to ask him any more questions.
Matthew 22
New International Version
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet(A)
22 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like(B) a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3 He sent his servants(C) to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4 “Then he sent some more servants(D) and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5 “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers(E) and burned their city.
8 “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9 So go to the street corners(F) and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ 10 So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good,(G) and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend(H)?’ The man was speechless.
13 “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’(I)
14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”(J)
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar(K)
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians.(L) “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a](M) to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s,(N) and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.(O)
Marriage at the Resurrection(P)
23 That same day the Sadducees,(Q) who say there is no resurrection,(R) came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.(S) 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures(T) or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;(U) they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[b]?(V) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.(W)
The Greatest Commandment(X)
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,(Y) the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law,(Z) tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c](AA) 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d](AB) 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”(AC)
Whose Son Is the Messiah?(AD)
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”
“The son of David,”(AE) they replied.
43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,
44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’[e](AF)
45 If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” 46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.(AG)
Footnotes
- Matthew 22:17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens
- Matthew 22:32 Exodus 3:6
- Matthew 22:37 Deut. 6:5
- Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18
- Matthew 22:44 Psalm 110:1
Mateo 22
Traducción en lenguaje actual
La fiesta de bodas
22 Una vez más, Jesús les puso un ejemplo a los sacerdotes, a los líderes judíos y a los fariseos:
2 «En el reino de Dios pasa lo mismo que cuando un rey hizo una fiesta para celebrar la boda de su hijo. 3 El rey envió a sus sirvientes para que llamaran a los invitados a la fiesta. Pero los invitados no quisieron ir. 4 Entonces el rey envió a otros sirvientes con este mensaje: “La comida ya está lista. He mandado preparar la carne de mis mejores terneros. ¡Vengan a la fiesta!”
5 »Pero los invitados no hicieron caso, y cada uno se fue a hacer otras cosas. Uno fue a ver sus terrenos, otro fue a atender su negocio, 6 y los otros agarraron a los sirvientes del rey y los mataron a golpes.
7 »El rey se enojó mucho, y envió a sus soldados para que mataran a esos invitados y quemaran la ciudad donde vivían. 8 Luego, el rey dijo a sus sirvientes: “La fiesta de bodas está lista, y aquellos invitados no merecían venir. 9 Vayan por las calles, e inviten a todos los que encuentren para que vengan a la fiesta de bodas.”
10 »Los sirvientes fueron a las calles de la ciudad e invitaron a muchas personas, unas malas y otras buenas; y así el salón de la fiesta se llenó de invitados.
11 »Cuando el rey entró al salón para conocer a los invitados, vio a uno que no estaba bien vestido para la fiesta, 12 y le dijo: “¡Oye, tú! ¿Cómo hiciste para entrar, si no estás vestido para la fiesta?”
»Pero él no contestó nada. 13 Entonces el rey les ordenó a sus sirvientes: “Átenlo de pies y manos, y échenlo afuera, a la oscuridad; allí la gente llora y rechina de terror los dientes.”
14 »Esto pasa porque son muchos los invitados a participar en el reino de Dios, pero son muy pocos aquellos a los que Dios acepta.»
Una trampa para Jesús
15 Un día, los fariseos se reunieron y decidieron ponerle una trampa a Jesús, para hacer que dijera algo malo. 16 Mandaron a algunos de sus seguidores, junto con unos partidarios del rey Herodes, para que dijeran a Jesús:
—Maestro, sabemos que siempre dices la verdad. Tú le enseñas a la gente que debe obedecer a Dios en todo. No te importa lo que digan los demás acerca de tus enseñanzas, porque tú no hablas para quedar bien con ellos. 17 Dinos ahora qué opinas: ¿Está bien que le paguemos impuestos al emperador de Roma, o no?
18 Pero como Jesús conocía las malas intenciones que tenían, les dijo:
—¡Hipócritas! ¿Por qué quieren ponerme una trampa? 19 Muéstrenme una de las monedas que se usan para pagar el impuesto.
Entonces le trajeron una moneda de plata, 20 y Jesús les preguntó:
—¿De quién es la imagen que está en la moneda? ¿De quién es el nombre que tiene escrito?
21 Ellos contestaron:
—Del emperador romano.
Jesús les dijo:
—Pues denle al emperador lo que es del emperador, y a Dios lo que es de Dios.
22 Los fariseos quedaron asombrados al escuchar la respuesta, y se fueron.
Los saduceos hablan con Jesús
23 Ese mismo día, unos saduceos fueron a ver a Jesús. Los saduceos no creían que los muertos pueden volver a vivir, 24 y por eso le preguntaron:
—Maestro, Moisés escribió que, si un hombre muere sin tener hijos con su esposa, el hermano de ese hombre debe casarse con la viuda y tener hijos con ella. De acuerdo con la Ley, esos hijos le pertenecen al hermano muerto y llevan su nombre.
25 »Pues bien, aquí vivieron una vez siete hermanos. El hermano mayor se casó, y tiempo más tarde murió sin tener hijos. Entonces el hermano que seguía se casó con la mujer que dejó el mayor, 26 pero, tiempo después, también él murió sin tener hijos. Con el tercer hermano pasó lo mismo. Y así pasó con los siete hermanos. 27 Finalmente, murió la mujer.
28 »Ahora bien, cuando Dios haga que los muertos vuelvan a vivir, ¿de quién será esposa esta mujer, si estuvo casada con los siete?
29 Jesús contestó:
—Ustedes están equivocados. Ni saben lo que dice la Biblia, ni conocen el poder de Dios. 30 Cuando Dios haga que los muertos vuelvan a vivir, nadie se va a casar, porque todos serán como los ángeles del cielo. 31 Y en cuanto a si los muertos vuelven a vivir, ustedes pueden leer en la Biblia lo que Dios le dijo a Moisés: 32 “Yo soy el Dios de Abraham, de Isaac y de Jacob, tus antepasados”. Por tanto, Dios no es Dios de muertos, sino de vivos, pues para Dios todos ellos están vivos.[a]
33 Al oír las enseñanzas de Jesús, la gente que estaba allí se quedó asombrada.
Los dos mandamientos más importantes
34 Cuando los fariseos se dieron cuenta de que Jesús había dejado callados a los saduceos, se reunieron y fueron a ver a Jesús. 35 Uno de ellos, que sabía mucho acerca de la ley de los judíos, quiso ponerle una trampa y le preguntó:
36 —Maestro, ¿cuál es el mandamiento más importante de todos?
37-38 Jesús le respondió:
—El primer mandamiento, y el más importante, es el que dice así: “Ama a tu Dios con todo lo que piensas y con todo lo que eres.” 39 Y el segundo mandamiento en importancia es parecido a ése, y dice así: “Cada uno debe amar a su prójimo como se ama a sí mismo.” 40 Toda la enseñanza de la Biblia se basa en estos dos mandamientos.
La pregunta acerca del Mesías
41 Mientras los fariseos todavía estaban reunidos, Jesús les preguntó:
42 —¿A qué familia pertenecerá el Mesías?
Ellos respondieron:
—A la familia del rey David.
43-45 Jesús les dijo:
—Con la ayuda del Espíritu Santo, David escribió:
“Dios le dijo a mi Señor el Mesías:
‘Siéntate a la derecha de mi trono
hasta que yo derrote a tus enemigos.’”
»A ver, explíquenme: Si el rey David llama Señor al Mesías, ¿cómo puede el Mesías ser su descendiente? ¡Hasta David lo considera más importante que él mismo!
46 Nadie pudo responderle a Jesús, y desde ese momento ya nadie se atrevió a hacerle más preguntas.
Footnotes
- Mateo 22:32 Lo que Jesús dice es que, si Dios es adorado por Abraham, Isaac y Jacob, ellos deben estar con vida, porque Dios es Dios de los que están vivos. Véase Lucas 20.37-38.
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