Question 1

What is the main point of the wedding feast story Jesus tells?

Accepted Answer

The wedding feast story pictures God as a king who prepares a rich banquet for his Son. Those first invited refuse to come, ignore the call, chase after work and business, and even abuse and kill the king’s servants. This shows how many in Israel, especially leaders, rejected God’s call through prophets and through Christ. Then the king invites all kinds of people from the roads, good and bad, showing that the gospel invitation goes out widely. But the guest without a wedding garment shows that only those truly changed and “clothed” as God requires will finally stay.

Question 2

Why does the king punish the invited guests and burn their city?

Accepted Answer

The king’s hard response shows how serious it is to despise God’s invitation. The invited guests do not just decline politely, they mock the call, chase their own interests, and some become violent, abusing and killing the servants. The king’s armies destroying the murderers and burning their city points to God’s judgment on those who refuse his Son and harm his messengers. In the first readers’ minds this would fit with the fall of Jerusalem, but it also shows a wider truth: long‑standing rejection of God’s grace leads at last to ruin.

Question 3

What is the wedding garment, and why is the man without it cast out?

Accepted Answer

The wedding garment stands for the fitness God requires to share in his kingdom. It is not about outward clothes but about being renewed and made right in his sight. The man without a garment has accepted the general invitation but has not truly changed. When the king questions him, he is speechless, with no excuse. This shows that being around religious things, or sitting among God’s people, is not enough. A person must be “clothed” in the righteousness God gives and show a new life. Without that, there is final exclusion, pictured as outer darkness and weeping.

Question 4

What does “many are called, but few are chosen” mean here?

Accepted Answer

In this story, many people hear the invitation to the wedding feast. Servants go out widely, calling all they can find, both bad and good. That is like the broad call of the gospel, which reaches many ears. Yet not all who hear truly come on God’s terms. Some reject the call outright, and even among those who come, one is found without a wedding garment. So “many are called, but few are chosen” warns that hearing the message and outwardly joining in is not the same as being truly accepted by God. Real faith and a changed life show a chosen heart.

Question 5

What did Jesus mean by “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s”?

Accepted Answer

The Pharisees and Herodians tried to trap Jesus with a question about paying tax to Caesar. If he said yes, some Jews might see him as siding with Rome; if no, he could be accused of rebellion. Jesus asked for a coin and pointed to Caesar’s image on it. Since the coin carried Caesar’s image and name, he said to give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and God what belongs to God. So earthly rulers have a real, though limited, claim in civil matters, but our deepest loyalty, worship, and obedience belong to God alone.

Question 6

How did Jesus answer the Sadducees’ question about resurrection and marriage?

Accepted Answer

The Sadducees, who denied any resurrection, told a story about seven brothers who each married the same woman in turn. They asked whose wife she would be in the resurrection, trying to show the idea was foolish. Jesus said they were wrong because they did not know the Scriptures or God’s power. He explained that in the resurrection people neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven. Then he pointed to God’s words, “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” showing that God is God of the living, so those patriarchs still live to him.

Question 7

What is the greatest commandment according to Jesus in this passage?

Accepted Answer

When a law expert asked which commandment is greatest, Jesus went straight to the heart. First, he said the great and first commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. God deserves full, whole‑person love. Then he added that the second is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself. He said that all the law and the prophets hang on these two. So every command God has given fits under these two loves: loving God above all and loving other people as we already care for ourselves.

Question 8

What does this passage show about who the Christ is?

Accepted Answer

At the end, Jesus turns the questions back on the Pharisees. He asks whose son the Christ is, and they answer, “The son of David.” Jesus then asks how David, speaking by the Spirit, can call the Christ “Lord” if he is only his descendant, quoting, “The LORD said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand.” The point is that the Christ is both David’s son and David’s Lord. He is more than a human king from David’s line; he shares in God’s rule. This question leaves the leaders speechless and hints at Jesus’ own divine identity.

Question 9

How can this passage guide how I respond to God today?

Accepted Answer

This passage gives several clear warnings and helps. The wedding story urges you not to treat God’s call lightly or put work and business ahead of him. It also reminds you that being near church things is not enough; you need to be truly changed and “clothed” as God requires. The tax question teaches you to respect earthly rulers while keeping God first. The talk on resurrection lifts your eyes beyond this life. The great commandments call you to love God fully and love people well. Taken together, it nudges you to a sincere, wholehearted response to Jesus.

Matthew 22:1

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

The Parable of the Banquet

Paying Taxes to Caesar

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

The Greatest Commandment

Whose Son Is the Christ?

The Parable of the Banquet

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Matthew 22:1

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

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The Parable of the Banquet

Paying Taxes to Caesar

The Sadducees and the Resurrection

The Greatest Commandment

Whose Son Is the Christ?

The Parable of the Banquet

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