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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew by R F Weymouth
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022:009 Go out therefore to the crossroads, and everybody you meet
invite to the wedding.'
022:010 "So they went out into the roads and gathered together all
they could find, both bad and good, and the banqueting hall
was filled with guests.
022:011 "Now the king came in to see the guests; and among them
he discovered one who was not wearing a wedding-robe.
022:012 "`My friend,' he said, `how is it that you came in here without
a wedding robe?'
022:013 "The man stood speechless. Then the king said to the servants,
"`Bind him hand and foot and fling him into the darkness outside:
there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.'
022:014 "For there are many called, but few chosen."
022:015 Then the Pharisees went and consulted together how they might
entrap Him in His conversation.
022:016 So they sent to Him their disciples together with the Herodians;
who said, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you
faithfully teach God's truth; and that no fear of man misleads you,
for you are not biased by men's wealth or rank.
022:017 Give us your judgement therefore: is it allowable for us
to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?"
022:018 Perceiving their wickedness, Jesus replied, "Why are you
hypocrites trying to ensnare me?
022:019 Show me the tribute coin." And they brought Him a shilling.
022:020 "Whose likeness and inscription," He asked, "is this?"
022:021 "Caesar's," they replied. "Pay therefore," He rejoined,
"what is Caesar's to Caesar; and what is God's to God."
022:022 They heard this, and were astonished; then left Him,
and went their way.
022:023 On the same day a party of Sadducees came to Him, contending that
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