The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Matthew
22:18. But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye
hypocrites?
22:19. Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny.
22:20. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
22:21. They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render
therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things
that are God's.
22:22. And hearing this, they wondered and, leaving him, went their
ways.
22:23. That day there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no
resurrection; and asked him,
22:24. Saying: Master, Moses said: If a man die having no son, his
brother shall marry his wife and raise up issue to his brother.
22:25. Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first having
married a wife, died; and not having issue, left his wife to his
brother.
22:26. In like manner the second and the third and so on, to the
seventh.
22:27. And last of all the woman died also.
22:28. At the resurrection therefore, whose wife of the seven shall she
be? For they all had her.
22:29. And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the
Scriptures nor the power of God.
22:30. For in the resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married,
but shall be as the angels of God in heaven.
22:31. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read
that which was spoken by God, saying to you:
22:32. I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.
22:33. And the multitudes hearing it were in admiration at his doctrine.
22:34. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees,
came together.
22:35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:
22:36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
22:37. Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy
whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.
22:38. This is the greatest and the first commandment.
22:39. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.
22:40. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the
prophets.
22:41. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,
22:42. Saying: What think you of Christ? Whose son is he? They say to
him: David's.
22:43. He saith to them: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord,
saying:
22:44. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy
enemies thy footstool?
22:45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
22:46. And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man
from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Matthew Chapter 23
Christ admonishes the people to follow the good doctrine, not the bad
example of the scribes and Pharisees. He warns his disciples not to
imitate their ambition and denounces divers woes against them for their
hypocrisy and blindness.
23:1. Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
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