Matthew 22
1 Then Jesus told [the Jewish leaders] other parables [in order to illustrate what will happen to the people who do not accept him as the King God promised to send]. [This is one of those parables: ]
Jesus falou com eles, usando mais histórias como exemplo.
2 “[God] [MTY/EUP] [is like] a king [SIM] who [told his servants that they should] make a wedding feast for his son.
“O Reino do Céu é como um rei que organizou uma festa de casamento para o seu filho”, Jesus explicou.
3 [When] the feast [was ready], the king sent his servants to tell the people who had been {whom he had} invited that it was time for them to come to the wedding feast. [The servants did that]. But the people who had been invited did not want to come.
“Ele enviou seus empregados para falar com todos os convidados para irem à festa, mas eles se recusaram.
4 So he sent other servants [to] again [tell the people whom he had invited that they should come to the feast]. He said [to those servants], ‘Say to the people whom I invited [to come to the feast], “The king says that he has prepared the food. The oxen and the fattened calves have been butchered [and cooked]. Everything is ready. It is time [now for you to] come to the wedding feast!’”’
Então, ele enviou mais empregados, com a seguinte ordem: ‘Digam aos convidados que eu já preparei o banquete de casamento. Os bois e os bezerros gordos já foram mortos e já está tudo pronto. Então, venham para a festa!’
5 [But when the servants told them that, they] disregarded [what the servants said]. Some of them went to their own fields. Others went to their places of business.
Mas, os convidados ignoraram o convite e saíram para cuidar de outras coisas. Um foi para seu campo, e o outro foi cuidar do seu negócio.
6 The rest of them seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
Os outros agarraram os empregados do rei e os maltrataram, e acabaram por matá-los.
7 [When the king heard what had happened], he became furious. He commanded his soldiers to go and kill those murderers and burn their cities.
O rei ficou furioso. Ele enviou seus soldados para destruir aqueles assassinos e queimar a cidade deles.
8 [After his soldiers had done that], the king said to his other servants, ‘I have prepared the [wedding] feast, but the people who were {whom I} invited do not deserve to [come to it because they did not consider it an honor to have been invited].
Então, o rei disse aos seus empregados: ‘O banquete de casamento está pronto, mas as pessoas que convidei não mereciam participar desta festa.
9 So, go to the intersections of the main streets. Tell whomever you find that they should come to the [wedding] feast.’
Vão pelas ruas e convidem a todos que encontrarem para que venham ao casamento.’
10 So the servants went there, and they gathered everyone they saw [who wanted to come to the feast]. They gathered [both people that were considered] to be evil and [those that were considered to be] good. They brought them into the hall where the wedding [feast took place]. The hall was filled with people.
E, assim, os empregados fizeram. Saíram pelas ruas e trouxeram todos que puderam encontrar, tanto as pessoas boas quanto as más. O salão da festa de casamento ficou lotado.
11 But when the king went [into the hall] to see the guests who were there, he saw someone who was not wearing clothes [that had been provided for the guests to wear] at a wedding [feast].
Mas, quando o rei veio encontrar os convidados, ele notou que um homem não estava vestido com roupas apropriadas para uma festa.
12 The king said to him, ‘Friend, (you should never have entered this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes [that guests wear] at wedding [feasts]!/how did you enter this hall, because you are not wearing the clothes [that are appropriate for guests to wear] at a wedding [feast]?) [RHQ]’ The man did not say anything, [because he did not know what to say].
Ele lhe perguntou: ‘Amigo, como você entrou aqui sem estar vestido adequadamente para uma festa?’ O homem não disse nada.
13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie this person’s feet and hands and throw him outside where there is total darkness. People who are there cry out [because they are suffering] and they gnash their teeth [because of their severe pain].’”
Então, o rei disse aos seus empregados: ‘Amarrem suas mãos e seus pés e o joguem nas trevas, onde chorará e rangerá os dentes.’
14 [Then Jesus said, “The point of this story is that God] has invited many [to come to him], but only a few people are the ones whom he has chosen [to be there].”
Pois muitos são os convidados, mas poucos são os escolhidos.”
15 After Jesus said that, the Pharisees met together in order to plan how they could cause him to say something that would enable them to accuse him.
Nesse momento, os fariseus saíram e se encontraram para fazer um plano de como poderiam conseguir alguma prova contra Jesus, usando o que ele tinha dito.
16 They sent to him some of their disciples, [who thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Jewish authorities required them to pay]. They also sent some members of the party that supported Herod. [The members of that party thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Roman government required them to pay]. [Those who were sent came and] said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and that you teach the truth about what God wants [us to do]. We also know that you do not change what you teach because of what someone says about you, even if it is an important person who does not like what you [IDM] teach.
Eles enviaram alguns dos seus discípulos até ele, juntamente com alguns dos apoiadores de Herodes. Eles, então, começaram: “Mestre, nós sabemos que você é um homem honesto e que ensina o caminho de Deus, de acordo com a verdade. Você não se permite ser influenciado por ninguém e não se importa com aparências.
17 So tell us what you think [RHQ] [about this matter]: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government [MTY], or not?”
Então, queremos saber a sua opinião: É certo pagar impostos para o imperador romano, ou não?”
18 But Jesus knew that what they really wanted to do was evil. [They were wanting him to say something that would get him in trouble with either the Jewish authorities or the Roman authorities. So he said to them], “You are (hypocrites/pretending to ask a legitimate question), but you are just wanting [RHQ] me to say something for which you can accuse me.
Jesus sabia que eles estavam mal-intencionados. Ele lhes respondeu: “Por que vocês estão tentando me pegar em uma armadilha? Hipócritas!
19 Show me [one of] the coins with [which people pay] the [Roman] tax.” So they showed him [a coin called] a denarius.
Mostrem-me a moeda que é usada para pagar o imposto.” Eles lhe trouxeram uma moeda de denário.
20 He said to them, “Whose picture is [on] this [coin]? And [whose] name [is on it]?”
Ele lhes perguntou: “De quem são a imagem e o nome inscritos aqui?”
21 They answered, “[It has the picture and name of] Caesar, [the head of the Roman government].” Then he said to them, “Okay, give to the government what they [require], and give to God what he [requires].”
Eles responderam: “De César, o imperador romano.” Jesus, então, lhes disse: “Vocês devem dar a César o que é de César e a Deus o que é de Deus.”
22 When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled [that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him]. Then they left Jesus.
Quando eles ouviram a resposta de Jesus, ficaram impressionados. Eles saíram e deixaram Jesus.
23 During that same day, some Sadducees came to Jesus. [They are a Jewish sect who do not] believe that people will become alive again after they die. They [wanted to] ask [Jesus] a question.
Mais tarde, naquele mesmo dia, alguns saduceus vieram vê-lo. (Eles são aqueles que dizem que não há ressurreição.)
24 [In order to discredit the idea that dead people will live again], they said [to him], “Teacher, Moses wrote [in the Scriptures], ‘If a man dies who did not have any children, his brother must marry the [dead man’s] widow in order that she can have a child by him. The child [will be considered] the descendant of the man [who died], [and in that way the dead man will have descendants].’
Eles perguntaram para Jesus: “Mestre, Moisés disse que se um homem casado morrer sem deixar filhos, seu irmão deve se casar com a viúva e ter filhos, que serão considerados filhos do irmão que morreu.
25 Well, there were seven boys in a family [living] near us. The oldest one married someone. He [and his wife] did not have any children, and he died. So the second brother married the widow. [But he also died without having a child].
Bem, havia entre nós sete irmãos. O primeiro se casou e morreu. Como ele não tinha filhos, a sua viúva se casou com o seu irmão.
26 The same thing [happened to] the third [brother], and also to the other four [brothers, who one by one married this same woman].
A mesma coisa aconteceu com o segundo e com o terceiro maridos, até chegar ao sétimo.
27 Last of all, the widow also died.
No fim, a mulher morreu também.
28 So, at the time when people are raised from the dead, which of the seven [brothers do you think] will be her husband? Keep in mind that they had all been married to her.”
Então, quando houver a ressurreição, de qual dos sete irmãos a mulher será a esposa, já que ela se casou com todos eles?”
29 Jesus replied to them, “You are certainly wrong [in what you are thinking]. You do not know [what is written in] the Scriptures. [You] also do not know [that] God has [the] power [to make people alive again].
Jesus respondeu: “O erro de vocês é que não conhecem as Sagradas Escrituras ou o que Deus pode fazer.
30 The fact is that [the woman will not be the wife of any of them, because] after [God causes all dead] people [to] live again, no one will be married. Instead, [people] will be like the angels in heaven. [They do not marry].
Pois as pessoas que ressuscitarem não se casam, e, também, não serão dadas em casamento. Elas são como os anjos no céu.
31 But as for dead people becoming alive again, God said something about that. (I’m sure you have read it./Have you not read it?) [RHQ] [Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said to Moses],
Em relação à ressurreição dos mortos, vocês não leram o que Deus disse? Ele afirmou:
32 ‘I am the God whom Abraham [worships] and the God whom Isaac [worships] and the God whom Jacob worships.’ It is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob died long before Moses lived, but God said that they were still worshipping him, so we know their spirits were still alive]!”
‘Eu sou o Deus de Abraão, o Deus de Isaque e o Deus de Jacó.’ Ele não é Deus dos mortos, mas, sim, dos vivos.”
33 When the crowds of people heard [Jesus teach] that, they were amazed.
Quando a multidão ouviu o que Jesus disse, ficou maravilhada com o seu ensinamento.
34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had answered the Sadducees in such a way that the Sadducees could not [think of anything that they might say to] respond to him, the Pharisees gathered together to [plan what they would say to him]. [Then they approached him].
Quando os fariseus ouviram dizer que Jesus tinha feito os saduceus calarem a boca, eles se reuniram e foram lhe fazer algumas perguntas.
35 One of them was a man who had studied well the laws [that God gave Moses]. He wanted to see if Jesus [could answer] his question well [or if he would say something wrong]. He asked him,
Um deles, que era um especialista na lei, fez uma pergunta a Jesus, para tentar fazer com que ele caísse em uma armadilha:
36 “Teacher, which commandment in the laws [that God gave Moses] is the most important?”
“Mestre, qual é o mandamento mais importante da Lei?”
37 Jesus [quoted the Scriptures as he replied], “‘You must love the Lord your God with all [IDM] your (inner being/heart). [Show that you love him] in all that you desire, in all that you feel, and in all that you think.’
Jesus lhes disse: “‘Ame o Senhor, seu Deus, com todo o seu coração, com toda a sua alma e com todo o seu entendimento.’
38 That is the most important commandment [in the laws that God gave Moses].
Esse é o primeiro e mais importante mandamento.
39 The next most important commandment [that everyone must surely obey] is: ‘You must love the people you come in contact with as much as [you love] yourself.’
O segundo é parecido com o primeiro: ‘Ame ao próximo como ama a você mesmo.’
40 These two commandments are the basis of every law [that Moses wrote in the Scriptures] and also of all that the prophets [wrote].”
Toda a lei bíblica e todos os textos dos profetas dependem desses dois mandamentos.”
41 While the Pharisees were still gathered together [near] Jesus, he asked them,
Enquanto os fariseus estavam lá reunidos, Jesus lhes fez uma pergunta:
42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” They said to him, “[He is] the descendant of [King] David.”
“O que vocês pensam a respeito do Messias? De quem ele é filho?” Eles responderam: “É filho de Davi.”
43 Jesus said to them, “[If the Messiah is King David’s descendant], then (David should not have called him ‘Lord’ when David was saying [what] the [Holy] Spirit [prompted him to] say./Why did David call the Messiah ‘Lord’ when David was speaking [what] the [Holy] Spirit [prompted him to] say?) [RHQ]
“Mas, como Davi, inspirado pelo Espírito Santo, chamou o Messias de ‘Senhor’?”, Jesus lhes perguntou. “Ele falou:
44 [David wrote this in the Scriptures about the Messiah]: ‘God said to my Lord, “Sit [here beside me] on my right, [the place of greatest honor you] [MTY]. [Sit here] while I completely defeat your enemies [MTY].”’
‘O Senhor disse para o meu Senhor: Sente-se a minha direita até que eu derrote todos os seus inimigos.’
45 So, since [King] David called [the Messiah] ‘my Lord’, ([the Messiah] cannot be [just someone] descended from David!/how can he be [only] the descendant of [King] David?) [RHQ] [He must be much greater than David]!”
Se Davi o chamou de Senhor, como o Messias pode ser seu filho?”
46 No one [who heard what Jesus said] was able to think of even one word to say to him [in response]. And after that, no one else ever dared to ask him another question [to try to trap him].
Nenhum deles pôde responder a Jesus. E, a partir daquele momento, ninguém mais teve coragem de perguntar qualquer outra coisa para ele.
