4. “Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited: See, I have prepared my supper. My oxen and fattened calves are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
5. “But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his business;
6. the rest took his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.
7. When the king heard about it, he was angry. He sent in his army and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.
8. “Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.
9. Go therefore to the streets, and invite to the wedding banquet as many as you find.’
10. So those servants went out into the streets and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11. “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man who was not wearing wedding garments.
12. He said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding garments?’ And he was speechless.
13. “Then the king told the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
14. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
15. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel to entangle Him in His words.
16. They sent their disciples to Him with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God truthfully, and are swayed by no one. For You do not regard the person of men.
17. Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18. But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, “Why test Me, you hypocrites?