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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: ]
“[God] [MTY/EUP] [is like] a king [SIM] who [told his servants that they should] make a wedding feast for his son.
[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.
4 ੪ ਫਿਰ ਉਹ ਨੇ ਹੋਰਨਾਂ ਨੌਕਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਕਹਿ ਕੇ ਭੇਜਿਆ ਜੋ ਸੱਦੇ ਹੋਇਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਆਖੋ ਕਿ ਵੇਖੋ ਮੈਂ ਭੋਜਨ ਤਿਆਰ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਬੈਲ ਤੇ ਮੋਟੇ-ਮੋਟੇ ਜਾਨਵਰ ਵੱਢੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਸਭ ਕੁਝ ਤਿਆਰ ਹੈ। ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵਿਆਹ ਵਿੱਚ ਆਓ।
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!’”’
[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.
The rest of them seized the king’s servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
7 ੭ ਤਦ ਰਾਜੇ ਨੂੰ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਆਇਆ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਆਪਣੀਆਂ ਫ਼ੌਜਾਂ ਭੇਜ ਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਖ਼ੂਨੀਆਂ ਦਾ ਨਾਸ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ ਫੂਕ ਸੁੱਟਿਆ।
[When the king heard what had happened], he became furious. He commanded his soldiers to go and kill those murderers and burn their cities.
[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].
So, go to the intersections of the main streets. Tell whomever you find that they should come to the [wedding] feast.’
10 ੧੦ ਤਦ ਉਹ ਨੌਕਰ ਰਸਤਿਆਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਬਾਹਰ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਬੁਰੇ ਭਲੇ ਜਿੰਨੇ ਮਿਲੇ ਸਭਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਇਕੱਠੇ ਕਰ ਲਿਆਏ ਅਤੇ ਵਿਆਹ ਵਾਲਾ ਘਰ ਮਹਿਮਾਨਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਭਰ ਗਿਆ।
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.
11 ੧੧ ਪਰ ਜਦ ਰਾਜਾ ਮਹਿਮਾਨਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਵੇਖਣ ਅੰਦਰ ਆਇਆ ਤਦ ਉੱਥੇ ਇੱਕ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਨੂੰ ਦੇਖਿਆ ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਵਿਆਹ ਵਾਲੇ ਕੱਪੜੇ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਹਿਨੇ ਹੋਏ ਸਨ।
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].
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].
13 ੧੩ ਤਦ ਰਾਜੇ ਨੇ ਸੇਵਾਦਾਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਆਖਿਆ, ਇਹ ਦੇ ਹੱਥ-ਪੈਰ ਬੰਨ੍ਹ ਕੇ ਇਹ ਨੂੰ ਬਾਹਰ ਦੇ ਅੰਧਕਾਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੁੱਟ ਦਿਓ! ਉੱਥੇ ਰੋਣਾ ਅਤੇ ਕਚੀਚੀਆਂ ਵੱਟਣਾ ਹੋਵੇਗਾ।
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].’”
[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].”
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.
16 ੧੬ ਅਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਆਪਣੇ ਚੇਲਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਹੇਰੋਦੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਕੋਲ ਭੇਜਿਆ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਆਖਣ, ਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ, ਅਸੀਂ ਜਾਣਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਜੋ ਤੂੰ ਸੱਚਾ ਹੈਂ ਅਤੇ ਸਚਿਆਈ ਨਾਲ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦਾ ਰਾਹ ਦੱਸਦਾ ਹੈਂ ਅਤੇ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਕਿਸੇ ਦੀ ਪਰਵਾਹ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਿਉਂ ਜੋ ਤੂੰ ਮਨੁੱਖਾਂ ਦਾ ਪੱਖਪਾਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਦਾ।
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.
So tell us what you think [RHQ] [about this matter]: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government [MTY], or not?”
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.
Show me [one of] the coins with [which people pay] the [Roman] tax.” So they showed him [a coin called] a denarius.
He said to them, “Whose picture is [on] this [coin]? And [whose] name [is on it]?”
21 ੨੧ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਹਾ, ਕੈਸਰ ਦੀ। ਤਦ ਯਿਸੂ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਆਖਿਆ, ਫੇਰ ਜਿਹੜੀਆਂ ਚੀਜ਼ਾਂ ਕੈਸਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਉਹ ਕੈਸਰ ਨੂੰ ਅਤੇ ਜਿਹੜੀਆਂ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਹਨ ਉਹ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨੂੰ ਦਿਓ।
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].”
When those men heard Jesus say that, they marveled [that his answer did not enable anyone to accuse him]. Then they left Jesus.
23 ੨੩ ਉਸੇ ਦਿਨ ਸਦੂਕੀ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਆਖਦੇ ਹਨ ਜੋ ਮੁਰਦਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਜੀ ਉੱਠਣਾ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ ਉਹ ਦੇ ਕੋਲ ਆਏ ਅਤੇ ਉਸ ਤੋਂ ਸਵਾਲ ਪੁੱਛਿਆ
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.
24 ੨੪ ਕਿ ਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਮੂਸਾ ਨੇ ਆਖਿਆ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਜੇ ਕੋਈ ਬੇ-ਔਲਾਦ ਮਰ ਜਾਵੇ ਤਾਂ ਉਹ ਦਾ ਭਰਾ ਉਹ ਦੀ ਪਤਨੀ ਨਾਲ ਵਿਆਹ ਕਰ ਲਵੇ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਭਰਾ ਲਈ ਸੰਤਾਨ ਉਤਪੰਨ ਕਰੇ।
[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].’
25 ੨੫ ਸੋ ਸਾਡੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਸੱਤ ਭਰਾ ਸਨ ਅਤੇ ਪਹਿਲਾ ਵਿਆਹ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਮਰ ਗਿਆ ਅਤੇ ਬੇ-ਔਲਾਦਾ ਹੋਣ ਕਰਕੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਭਰਾ ਦੇ ਲਈ ਆਪਣੀ ਪਤਨੀ ਛੱਡ ਗਿਆ।
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].
The same thing [happened to] the third [brother], and also to the other four [brothers, who one by one married this same woman].
Last of all, the widow also died.
28 ੨੮ ਉਪਰੰਤ ਮੁਰਦਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਜੀ ਉੱਠਣ ਦੇ ਦਿਨ ਨੂੰ ਉਹ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਸੱਤਾਂ ਵਿੱਚੋਂ ਕਿਸ ਦੀ ਪਤਨੀ ਹੋਵੇਗੀ ਕਿਉਂਕਿ ਉਹ ਸਭਨਾਂ ਦੀ ਪਤਨੀ ਬਣੀ ਸੀ?
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.”
29 ੨੯ ਯਿਸੂ ਨੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉੱਤਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ, ਤੁਸੀਂ ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਗ੍ਰੰਥਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਦੀ ਸਮਰੱਥਾ ਨੂੰ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਣਦੇ, ਇਸੇ ਲਈ ਗਲਤੀ ਕਰਦੇ ਹੋ।
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].
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].
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],
32 ੩੨ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਅਬਰਾਹਾਮ ਦਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ, ਇਸਹਾਕ ਦਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਅਤੇ ਯਾਕੂਬ ਦਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਹਾਂ? ਉਹ ਮੁਰਦਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨਹੀਂ ਪਰ ਜਿਉਂਦਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਹੈ।
‘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]!”
When the crowds of people heard [Jesus teach] that, they were amazed.
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].
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,
“Teacher, which commandment in the laws [that God gave Moses] is the most important?”
37 ੩੭ ਅਤੇ ਉਹ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਹਾ, ਤੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਆਪਣੇ ਪਰਮੇਸ਼ੁਰ ਨੂੰ ਆਪਣੇ ਸਾਰੇ ਦਿਲ ਨਾਲ, ਆਪਣੀ ਸਾਰੀ ਜਾਨ ਨਾਲ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਸਾਰੀ ਬੁੱਧ ਨਾਲ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰ।
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.’
That is the most important commandment [in the laws that God gave Moses].
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.’
These two commandments are the basis of every law [that Moses wrote in the Scriptures] and also of all that the prophets [wrote].”
While the Pharisees were still gathered together [near] Jesus, he asked them,
“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose descendant is he?” They said to him, “[He is] the descendant of [King] David.”
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]
44 ੪੪ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਨੇ ਮੇਰੇ ਪ੍ਰਭੂ ਨੂੰ ਆਖਿਆ, ਤੂੰ ਮੇਰੇ ਸੱਜੇ ਪਾਸੇ ਬੈਠ, ਜਦ ਤੱਕ ਮੈਂ ਤੇਰੇ ਵੈਰੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਤੇਰੇ ਪੈਰਾਂ ਹੇਠ ਨਾ ਕਰ ਦੇਵਾਂ।
[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].”’
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]!”
46 ੪੬ ਅਤੇ ਕੋਈ ਉਹ ਨੂੰ ਜਵਾਬ ਵਿੱਚ ਇੱਕ ਬਚਨ ਵੀ ਨਾ ਕਹਿ ਸਕਿਆ, ਨਾ ਉਸ ਦਿਨ ਤੋਂ ਕਿਸੇ ਦੀ ਹਿੰਮਤ ਹੋਈ ਜੋ ਉਸ ਅੱਗੇ ਕੋਈ ਪ੍ਰਸ਼ਨ ਕਰੇ।
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].
