Bible Reading February 10 - 12 (World English Bible)
Genesis
41
Gen
41:1 It happened at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:
and behold, he stood by the river.
Gen
41:2 Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and
fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Gen
41:3 Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river,
ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the
river.
Gen
41:4 The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle.
So Pharaoh awoke.
Gen
41:5 He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of
grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
Gen
41:6 Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east
wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full
ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Gen
41:8 It happened in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he
sent and called for all of Egypt's magicians and wise men. Pharaoh
told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them
to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:9 Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I
remember my faults today.
Gen
41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in
the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
Gen
41:11 We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
Gen
41:12 There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the
captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our
dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
Gen
41:13 It happened, as he interpreted to us, so it was: he restored
me to my office, and he hanged him."
Gen
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him
hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing,
and came in to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and
there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you,
that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
Gen
41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God
will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
Gen
41:17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on
the brink of the river:
Gen
41:18 and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat
and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,
Gen
41:19 and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and
very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
ugliness.
Gen
41:20 The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
Gen
41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that
they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning.
So I awoke.
Gen
41:22 I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on
one stalk, full and good:
Gen
41:23 and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted
with the east wind, sprung up after them.
Gen
41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of
grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could
explain it to me."
Gen
41:25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one.
What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good
heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
Gen
41:27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are
seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the
east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
Gen
41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about
to do he has shown to Pharaoh.
Gen
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the
plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will
consume the land,
Gen
41:31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that
famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.
Gen
41:32 The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Gen
41:33 "Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise
man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the
land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in
the seven plenteous years.
Gen
41:35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come,
and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities,
and let them keep it.
Gen
41:36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven
years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land
not perish through the famine."
Gen
41:37 The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of
all his servants.
Gen
41:38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as
this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
Gen
41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of
this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
Gen
41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will
all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than
you."
Gen
41:41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all
the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on
Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold
chain about his neck,
Gen
41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had.
They cried before him, "Bow the knee!" He set him over all
the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you
shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
Gen
41:45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him
Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph
went out over the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king
of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went
throughout all the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth
abundantly.
Gen
41:48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in
the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of
the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.
Gen
41:49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until
he stopped counting, for it was without number.
Gen
41:50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came,
whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
41:51 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For,"
he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my
father's house."
Gen
41:52 The name of the second, he called Ephraim: "For God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
Gen
41:53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt,
came to an end.
Gen
41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had
said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt
there was bread.
Gen
41:55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to
Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to
Joseph. What he says to you, do."
Gen
41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph
opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine
was severe in the land of Egypt.
Gen
41:57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain,
because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Genesis
42
Gen
42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to
his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Gen
42:2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in
Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live,
and not die."
Gen
42:3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Gen
42:4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his
brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
Gen
42:5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the
famine was in the land of Canaan.
Gen
42:6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to
all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed
themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.
Gen
42:7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like
a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them,
"Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land
of Canaan to buy food."
Gen
42:8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they didn't recognize him.
Gen
42:9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and
said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness
of the land."
Gen
42:10 They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have
come to buy food.
Gen
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are honest men. Your servants
are not spies."
Gen
42:12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the
nakedness of the land."
Gen
42:13 They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the
sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is
this day with our father, and one is no more."
Gen
42:14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You
are spies.'
Gen
42:15 By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall
not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
Gen
42:16 Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall
be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in
you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
Gen
42:17 He put them all together into custody for three days.
Gen
42:18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live,
for I fear God.
Gen
42:19 If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound
in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your
houses.
Gen
42:20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be
verified, and you won't die." They did so.
Gen
42:21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty
concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when
he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has
come upon us."
Gen
42:22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying,
'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore
also, behold, his blood is required."
Gen
42:23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an
interpreter between them.
Gen
42:24 He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned
to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and
bound him before their eyes.
Gen
42:25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and
to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for
the way. So it was done to them.
Gen
42:26 They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from
there.
Gen
42:27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the
lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his
sack.
Gen
42:28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold,
it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned
trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has
done to us?"
Gen
42:29 They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and
told him all that had happened to them, saying,
Gen
42:30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us,
and took us for spies of the country.
Gen
42:31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are no spies.
Gen
42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more,
and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
Gen
42:33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will
know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and
take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Gen
42:34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you
are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your
brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.' "
Gen
42:35 It happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every
man's bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw
their bundles of money, they were afraid.
Gen
42:36 Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me
of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to
take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
Gen
42:37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if
I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring
him to you again."
Gen
42:38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his
brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along
the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to Sheol."
Genesis
43
Gen
43:1 The famine was severe in the land.
Gen
43:2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had
brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy
us a little more food."
Gen
43:3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us,
saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
Gen
43:4 If you'll send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy you
food,
Gen
43:5 but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said
to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
"
Gen
43:6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the
man that you had another brother?"
Gen
43:7 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves,
and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive?
Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there
any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?' "
Gen
43:8 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me,
and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we,
and you, and also our little ones.
Gen
43:9 I'll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him.
If I don't bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear
the blame forever,
Gen
43:10 for if we hadn't delayed, surely we would have returned a
second time by now."
Gen
43:11 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so,
then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags,
and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey,
spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
Gen
43:12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money
that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an
oversight.
Gen
43:13 Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
Gen
43:14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may
release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of
my children, I am bereaved."
Gen
43:15 The men took that present, and they took double money in their
hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before
Joseph.
Gen
43:16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of
his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal,
and make ready; for the men will dine with me at noon."
Gen
43:17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men
to Joseph's house.
Gen
43:18 The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's
house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in
our sacks at the first time, we're brought in; that he may seek
occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with
our donkeys."
Gen
43:19 They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
spoke to him at the door of the house,
Gen
43:20 and said, "Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first
time to buy food.
Gen
43:21 When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and
behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in
full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.
Gen
43:22 We have brought down other money in our hand to buy food. We
don't know who put our money in our sacks."
Gen
43:23 He said, "Peace be to you. Don't be afraid. Your God, and
the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I
received your money." He brought Simeon out to them.
Gen
43:24 The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them
water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.
Gen
43:25 They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for
they heard that they should eat bread there.
Gen
43:26 When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was
in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to him to the
earth.
Gen
43:27 He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father
well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
Gen
43:28 They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is
still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
Gen
43:29 He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his
mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom
you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my
son."
Gen
43:30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he
sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Gen
43:31 He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and
said, "Serve the meal."
Gen
43:32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the
Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians
don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the
Egyptians.
Gen
43:33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his
birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men
marveled one with another.
Gen
43:34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's
portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were
merry with him.
Matthew 21
Mat 21:1
When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the
Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
Mat 21:2
saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and
immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie
them, and bring them to me.
Mat 21:3
If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,'
and immediately he will send them."
Mat 21:4
All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken
through the prophet, saying,
Mat 21:5
"Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you,
humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
Mat 21:6
The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
Mat 21:7
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them;
and he sat on them.
Mat 21:8
A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut
branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
Mat 21:9
The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting,
"Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
Mat 21:10
When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying,
"Who is this?"
Mat 21:11
The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth
of Galilee."
Mat 21:12
Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who
sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers'
tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
Mat 21:13
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a
house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
Mat 21:14
The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
Mat 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and
saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
Mat 21:16
and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus
said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of
babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?' "
Mat 21:17
He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
Mat 21:18
Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
Mat 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it
but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you
forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Mat 21:20
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the
fig tree immediately wither away?"
Mat 21:21
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have
faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig
tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into
the sea,' it would be done.
Mat 21:22
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Mat 21:23
When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of
the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what
authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
Mat 21:24
Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if
you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these
things.
Mat 21:25
The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?"
They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Mat 21:26
But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John
as a prophet."
Mat 21:27
They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also
said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do
these things.
Mat 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first,
and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
Mat 21:29
He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and
went.
Mat 21:30
He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go,
sir,' but he didn't go.
Mat 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him,
"The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I
tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering
into the Kingdom of God before you.
Mat 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't
believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him.
When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might
believe him.
Mat 21:33
"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a
household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a
winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went
into another country.
Mat 21:34
When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
farmers, to receive his fruit.
Mat 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned
another.
Mat 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated
them the same way.
Mat 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my
son.'
Mat 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This
is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
Mat 21:39
So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Mat 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to
those farmers?"
Mat 21:41
They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men,
and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him
the fruit in its season."
Mat 21:42
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The
stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the
corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
Mat 21:43
"Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away
from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.
Mat 21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever
it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
Mat 21:45
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they
perceived that he spoke about them.
Mat 21:46
When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because
they considered him to be a prophet.
Matthew 22
Mat 22:1
Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying,
Mat 22:2
"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a
marriage feast for his son,
Mat 22:3
and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the
marriage feast, but they would not come.
Mat 22:4
Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are
invited, "Behold, I have made ready my dinner. My cattle and my
fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage
feast!" '
Mat 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm,
another to his merchandise,
Mat 22:6
and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and
killed them.
Mat 22:7
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies,
destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Mat 22:8
"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those
who were invited weren't worthy.
Mat 22:9
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you
may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Mat 22:10
Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as
many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with
guests.
Mat 22:11
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who
didn't have on wedding clothing,
Mat 22:12
and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here not wearing
wedding clothing?' He was speechless.
Mat 22:13
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him
away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the
weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
Mat 22:14
For many are called, but few chosen."
Mat 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in
his talk.
Mat 22:16
They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying,
"Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God
in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.
Mat 22:17
Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to
Caesar, or not?"
Mat 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test
me, you hypocrites?
Mat 22:19
Show me the tax money." They brought to him a denarius.
Mat 22:20
He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
Mat 22:21
They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Give
therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the
things that are God's."
Mat 22:22
When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.
Mat 22:23
On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection)
came to him. They asked him,
Mat 22:24
saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no
children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his
brother.'
Mat 22:25
Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died,
and having no seed left his wife to his brother.
Mat 22:26
In like manner the second also, and the third, to the seventh.
Mat 22:27
After them all, the woman died.
Mat 22:28
In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven?
For they all had her."
Mat 22:29
But Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the
Scriptures, nor the power of God.
Mat 22:30
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in
marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
Mat 22:31
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read that
which was spoken to you by God, saying,
Mat 22:32
'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
Mat 22:33
When the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.
Mat 22:34
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the
Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
Mat 22:35
One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.
Mat 22:36
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
Mat 22:37
Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
Mat 22:38
This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39
A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'
Mat 22:40
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Mat 22:41
Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a
question,
Mat 22:42
saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"
They said to him, "Of David."
Mat 22:43
He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him
Lord, saying,
Mat 22:44
'The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your
enemies a footstool for your feet?'
Mat 22:45
"If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
Mat 22:46
No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask
him any more questions from that day forth.
