Mt 22:1-33

• vv1-14: Parable of the wedding banquet:
• king -> God
• king's son -> Jesus
• king's servants -> prophets
• those who had been invited -> Isrealites
• the invited people
  
• ignored the king's servants
  
• one went off to the field
• another to do his business
• the rest
• seized the servants
• mistreated them
• then killed them
• the king
  
• was enraged and
  
• send his army to destroy the murders and
  
• burned the city
• then asked his servants to
• invite anyone found on the street
• the servants
• went out into the streets
• gathered all the people they could find (good and bad)
  
• the wedding hall was packed
• one of the guest did not wear wedding clothes, when the king saw him he questioned him why. The man was speechless
• the king told the attendants
• tie him hand and foot
• throw him outside
• into the darkness
• where there willbe weeping and gnashing of teeth
• vv15-22: Paying taxes to Caesar
• the Pharisees and the Herodians schemed to trap Jesus (vv15-16)
  
• is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? (v17)
• Jesus's reply was affirmative--give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's (v21)
• they were amazed (v22)
  
• vv23-33: Marriage at the Resurrection
• the Sadducees -> don't believe in resurrection
• they were wrong (v29); God is not the Godof the dead but of the living (v32)
• the crowds were astonished (v33)