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Matthew 22:12-24 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. And he said to him, 'Friend, how is it that you have entered here without having a wedding garment?' But he was dumbstruck.

13. Then the king said to the ministers: 'Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

14. For many are called, but few are chosen.' "

15. Then the Pharisees, going out, took counsel as to how they might entrap him in speech.

16. And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying: "Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men.

17. Therefore, tell us, how does it seem to you? Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, or not?"

18. But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

19. Show me the coin of the census tax." And they offered him a denarius.

20. And Jesus said to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?"

21. They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God."

22. And hearing this, they wondered. And having left him behind, they went away.

23. In that day, the Sadducees, who say there is to be no resurrection, approached him. And they questioned him,

24. saying: "Teacher, Moses said: If anyone will have died, having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and he shall raise up offspring to his brother.

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