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: ]
Respondiendo Jesús les habló de nuevo en parábolas, y dijo:
2 “[God] [MTY/EUP] [is like] a king [SIM] who [told his servants that they should] make a wedding feast for his son.
“El reino de los cielos es semejante a un rey que celebró las bodas de su hijo.
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.
Y envió a sus siervos a llamar a los convidados a las bodas, mas ellos no quisieron venir.
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!’”’
Entonces envió a otros siervos, a los cuales dijo: “Decid a los convidados: Tengo preparado mi banquete; mis toros y animales cebados han sido sacrificados ya, y todo está a punto: venid a las bodas”.
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.
Pero, sin hacerle caso, se fueron el uno a su granja, el otro a sus negocios.
6 The rest of them seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
Y los restantes agarraron a los siervos, los ultrajaron y los mataron.
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.
El rey, encolerizado, envió sus soldados, hizo perecer a aquellos homicidas, y quemó su ciudad.
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].
Entonces dijo a sus siervos: “Las bodas están preparadas, mas los convidados no eran dignos.
9 So, go to the intersections of the main streets. Tell whomever you find that they should come to the [wedding] feast.’
Id, pues, a las encrucijadas de los caminos, y a todos cuantos halléis, invitadlos a las bodas”.
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.
Salieron aquellos siervos a los caminos, y reunieron a todos cuantos hallaron, malos y buenos, y la sala de las bodas quedó llena de convidados.
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 cuando el rey entró para ver a los comensales, notó a un hombre que no estaba vestido con el traje de boda.
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].
Díjole: “Amigo, ¿cómo has entrado aquí sin tener el traje de boda?” Y él enmudeció.
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].’”
Entonces el rey dijo a los siervos: “Atadlo de pies y manos, y arrojadlo a las tinieblas de afuera; allí será el llanto y el rechinar de dientes.
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].”
Porque muchos son llamados, mas pocos escogidos”.
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.
Entonces los fariseos se fueron y deliberaron cómo le sorprenderían en alguna palabra.
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.
Le enviaron, pues, sus discípulos con los herodianos, a decirle: “Maestro, sabemos que eres veraz y que enseñas el camino de Dios con verdad, sin miedo a nadie, porque no miras a la persona de los hombres.
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?”
Dinos, pues, lo que piensas: ¿es lícito pagar tributo al César o no?”
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.
Mas Jesús, conociendo su malicia, repuso: “Hipócritas, ¿por qué me tentáis?
19 Show me [one of] the coins with [which people pay] the [Roman] tax.” So they showed him [a coin called] a denarius.
Mostradme la moneda del tributo”. Y le presentaron un denario.
20 He said to them, “Whose picture is [on] this [coin]? And [whose] name [is on it]?”
Preguntoles: “¿De quién es esta figura y la leyenda?”
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].”
Le respondieron: “del César”. Entonces les dijo: “Dad, pues, al César lo que es del César, y a Dios lo que es de Dios”.
22 When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled [that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him]. Then they left Jesus.
Oyendo esto, quedaron maravillados, y dejándolo se fueron.
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.
En aquel día, algunos saduceos, los cuales dicen que no hay resurrección, se acercaron a Él, y le propusieron esta cuestión:
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].’
“Maestro, Moisés ha dicho: ‘Si alguno muere sin tener hijos, su hermano se casará con la cuñada, y suscitará prole a su hermano’.
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].
Ahora bien, había entre nosotros siete hermanos. El primero se casó y murió; y como no tuviese descendencia, dejó su mujer a su hermano.
26 The same thing [happened to] the third [brother], and also to the other four [brothers, who one by one married this same woman].
Sucedió lo mismo con el segundo, y con el tercero, hasta el séptimo.
27 Last of all, the widow also died.
Después de todos murió la mujer.
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.”
En la resurrección, pues, ¿de cuál de los siete será mujer? Porque todos la tuvieron”.
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].
Respondioles Jesús y dijo: “Erráis, por no entender las Escrituras ni el poder de Dios.
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].
Pues en la resurrección, ni se casan ( los hombres ), ni se dan (las mujeres ) en matrimonio, sino que son como ángeles de Dios en el cielo.
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],
Y en cuanto a la resurrección de los muertos, ¿no habéis leído lo que os ha dicho Dios:
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]!”
“Yo soy el Dios de Abrahán, y el Dios de Isaac, y el Dios de Jacob”? Dios no es Dios de muertos, sino de vivientes”.
33 When the crowds of people heard [Jesus teach] that, they were amazed.
Al oír esto, las muchedumbres estaban poseídas de admiración por su doctrina.
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].
Mas los fariseos, al oír que había tapado la boca a los saduceos, vinieron a reunirse junto a Él;
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,
y uno de ellos, doctor de la Ley, le propuso esta cuestión para tentarlo:
36 “Teacher, which commandment in the laws [that God gave Moses] is the most important?”
“Maestro, ¿cuál es el mayor mandamiento de la Ley?”
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.’
Respondió Él: “Amarás al Señor tu Dios de todo tu corazón, con toda tu alma, y con todo tu espíritu.
38 That is the most important commandment [in the laws that God gave Moses].
Este es el mayor y primer mandamiento.
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.’
El segundo le es semejante: “Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo”.
40 These two commandments are the basis of every law [that Moses wrote in the Scriptures] and also of all that the prophets [wrote].”
De estos dos mandamientos pende toda la Ley y los Profetas”.
41 While the Pharisees were still gathered together [near] Jesus, he asked them,
Estando aún reunidos los fariseos, Jesús les propuso esta cuestión:
42 “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” They said to him, “[He is] the descendant of [King] David.”
“¿Qué pensáis del Cristo? ¿De quién es hijo?” Dijéronle “de David”.
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]
Replicó Él “¿Cómo, entonces, David ( inspirado ), por el Espíritu, lo llama “Señor”, cuando dice:
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].”’
“El Señor dijo a mi Señor: Sientate a mi diestra, hasta que ponga a tus enemigos bajo tus pies”?
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]!”
Si David lo llama “Señor” ¿cómo es su hijo?
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].
Y nadie pudo responderle nada, y desde ese día nadie osó más proponerle cuestiones.
