Matthieu 22.25
New International Version

Parabole du festin des noces

¹ Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:
² “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
³ He sent his servants 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 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 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 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, 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?’ 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.’
¹⁴ “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Tentatives de piéger Jésus

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. “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 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, and to God what is God’s.”
²² When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
²³ That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, 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.
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 or the power of God.
³⁰ At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; 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’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
³³ When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law, 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.’
³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment.
³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Reproches de Jésus aux chefs religieux

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,” 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.” ’

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.