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title: "Matthew 22 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# Matthew 22

Matthew 22 is chapter 22 of 28 in the Gospel of Matthew. Here are all 46 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The parable of the marriage feast. Christ orders tribute to be paid to Caesar. He confutes the Sadducees, shews which is the first commandment in the law and puzzles the Pharisees.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Matthew 22 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And responding, Jesus again spoke to them in parables, saying:
2. “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who was king, who celebrated a wedding for his son.
3. And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding. But they were not willing to come.
4. Again, he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell the invited: Behold, I have prepared my meal. My bulls and fatlings have been killed, and all is ready. Come to the wedding.’
5. But they ignored this and they went away: one to his country estate, and another to his business.
6. Yet truly, the rest took hold of his servants and, having treated them with contempt, killed them.
7. But when the king heard this, he was angry. And sending out his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and he burned their city.
8. Then he said to his servants: ‘The wedding, indeed, has been prepared. But those who were invited were not worthy.
9. Therefore, go out to the ways, and call whomever you will find to the wedding.’
10. And his servants, departing into the ways, gathered all those whom they found, bad and good, and the wedding was filled with guests.
11. Then the king entered to see the guests. And he saw a man there who was not clothed in a wedding garment.
12. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how is it that you have entered here without having a wedding garment?’ But he was dumbstruck.
13. Then the king said to the ministers: ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14. For many are called, but few are chosen.’”
15. Then the Pharisees, going out, took counsel as to how they might entrap him in speech.
16. And they sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying: “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and that you teach the way of God in truth, and that the influence of others is nothing to you. For you do not consider the reputation of men.
17. Therefore, tell us, how does it seem to you? Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, or not?”
18. But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
19. Show me the coin of the census tax.” And they offered him a denarius.
20. And Jesus said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?”
21. They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Then render to Caesar what is of Caesar; and to God what is of God.”
22. And hearing this, they wondered. And having left him behind, they went away.
23. In that day, the Sadducees, who say there is to be no resurrection, approached him. And they questioned him,
24. saying: “Teacher, Moses said: If anyone will have died, having no son, his brother shall marry his wife, and he shall raise up offspring to his brother.
25. Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first, having taken a wife, died. And having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother:
26. similarly with the second, and the third, even to the seventh.
27. And last of all, the woman also passed away.
28. In the resurrection, then, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
29. But Jesus responded to them by saying: “You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
30. For in the resurrection, they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage. Instead, they shall be like the Angels of God in heaven.
31. But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken by God, saying to you:
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.”
33. And when the crowds heard this, they wondered at his doctrine.
34. But the Pharisees, hearing that he had caused the Sadducees to be silent, came together as one.
35. And one of them, a doctor of the law, questioned him, to test him:
36. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37. Jesus said to him: “‘You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38. This is the greatest and first commandment.
39. But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
40. On these two commandments the entire law depends, and also the prophets.”
41. Then, when the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus questioned them,
42. saying: “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.”
43. He said to them: “Then how can David, in the Spirit, call him Lord, saying:
44. ‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?’
45. So then, if David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?”
46. And no one was able to respond to him a word. And neither did anyone dare, from that day forward, to question him.

## Matthew 22 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et respondens Jesus, dixit iterum in parabolis eis, dicens:
2. Simile factum est regnum cælorum homini regi, qui fecit nuptias filio suo.
3. Et misit servos suos vocare invitatos ad nuptias, et nolebant venire.
4. Iterum misit alios servos, dicens: Dicite invitatis: Ecce prandium meum paravi, tauri mei et altilia occisa sunt, et omnia parata: venite ad nuptias.
5. Illi autem neglexerunt: et abierunt, alius in villam suam, alius vero ad negotiationem suam:
6. reliqui vero tenuerunt servos ejus, et contumeliis affectos occiderunt.
7. Rex autem cum audisset, iratus est: et missis exercitibus suis, perdidit homicidas illos, et civitatem illorum succendit.
8. Tunc ait servis suis: Nuptiæ quidem paratæ sunt, sed qui invitati erant, non fuerunt digni:
9. ite ergo ad exitus viarum, et quoscumque inveneritis, vocate ad nuptias.
10. Et egressi servi ejus in vias, congregaverunt omnes quos invenerunt, malos et bonos: et impletæ sunt nuptiæ discumbentium.
11. Intravit autem rex ut videret discumbentes, et vidit ibi hominem non vestitum veste nuptiali.
12. Et ait illi: Amice, quomodo huc intrasti non habens vestem nuptialem? At ille obmutuit.
13. Tunc dicit rex ministris: Ligatis manibus et pedibus ejus, mittite eum in tenebras exteriores: ibi erit fletus et stridor dentium.
14. Multi enim sunt vocati, pauci vero electi.
15. Tunc abeuntes pharisæi, consilium inierunt ut caperent eum in sermone.
16. Et mittunt ei discipulos suos cum Herodianis, dicentes: Magister, scimus quia verax es, et viam Dei in veritate doces, et non est tibi cura de aliquo: non enim respicis personam hominum:
17. dic ergo nobis quid tibi videtur, licet censum dare Cæsari, an non?
18. Cognita autem Jesus nequitia eorum, ait: Quid me tentatis, hypocritæ?
19. ostendite mihi numisma census. At illi obtulerunt ei denarium.
20. Et ait illis Jesus: Cujus est imago hæc, et superscriptio?
21. Dicunt ei: Cæsaris. Tunc ait illis: Reddite ergo quæ sunt Cæsaris, Cæsari: et quæ sunt Dei, Deo.
22. Et audientes mirati sunt, et relicto eo abierunt.
23. In illo die accesserunt ad eum sadducæi, qui dicunt non esse resurrectionem: et interrogaverunt eum,
24. dicentes: Magister, Moyses dixit: Si quis mortuus fuerit non habens filium, ut ducat frater ejus uxorem illius, et suscitet semen fratri suo.
25. Erant autem apud nos septem fratres: et primus, uxore ducta, defunctus est: et non habens semen, reliquit uxorem suam fratri suo.
26. Similiter secundus, et tertius usque ad septimum.
27. Novissime autem omnium et mulier defuncta est.
28. In resurrectione ergo cujus erit de septem uxor? omnes enim habuerunt eam.
29. Respondens autem Jesus, ait illis: Erratis nescientes Scripturas, neque virtutem Dei.
30. In resurrectione enim neque nubent, neque nubentur: sed erunt sicut angeli Dei in cælo.
31. De resurrectione autem mortuorum non legistis quod dictum est a Deo dicente vobis:
32. Ego sum Deus Abraham, et Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob? Non est Deus mortuorum, sed viventium.
33. Et audientes turbæ, mirabantur in doctrina ejus.
34. Pharisæi autem audientes quod silentium imposuisset sadducæis, convenerunt in unum:
35. et interrogavit eum unus ex eis legis doctor, tentans eum:
36. Magister, quod est mandatum magnum in lege?
37. Ait illi Jesus: Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et in tota anima tua, et in tota mente tua.
38. Hoc est maximum, et primum mandatum.
39. Secundum autem simile est huic: Diliges proximum tuum, sicut teipsum.
40. In his duobus mandatis universa lex pendet, et prophetæ.
41. Congregatis autem pharisæis, interrogavit eos Jesus,
42. dicens: Quid vobis videtur de Christo? cujus filius est? Dicunt ei: David.
43. Ait illis: Quomodo ergo David in spiritu vocat eum Dominum, dicens:
44. Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum?
45. Si ergo David vocat eum Dominum, quomodo filius ejus est?
46. Et nemo poterat ei respondere verbum: neque ausus fuit quisquam ex illa die eum amplius interrogare.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 546: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 796: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1036: Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2242: The Authorities In Civil Society ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 581: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 575: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2196: You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2055: The Ten Commandments ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2083: You Shall Love the Lord Your God With All Your Heart, and With All Your Soul, and With All Your Mind ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1824: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 439: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 447: Lord ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “I die the King's good servant, but God's first.” — St. Thomas More, Words on the scaffold, 1535 (On this theme: verse 21)
- “Whoever thinks he understands the Scriptures but does not build up the twofold love of God and neighbor has not yet understood them.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine, I.36, c. 397 (On this theme: verse 37)
- “The reason for loving God is God Himself; the measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.” — St. Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God, ch. 1, c. 1128 (On this theme: verse 37)
- “The whole sanctity and perfection of a soul consists in loving Jesus Christ, our God, our sovereign good, and our Redeemer.” — St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ, ch. 1, 1768 (On this theme: verse 37)
- “I ask you to love Me with the same love with which I love you. But for Me you cannot do this, for I loved you without being loved. Whatever love you have for Me you owe Me, so you love Me not gratuitously but out of duty. Therefore love your neighbor gratuitously.” — St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, ch. 7, 1378 (On this theme: verse 39)
- “It is not enough to love God if my neighbor does not love Him.” — St. Vincent de Paul, Letter to a Daughter of Charity, c. 1650 (On this theme: verse 39)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 16: “The Herodians” … That is, some that belonged to Herod, and that joined with him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute to Caesar, that is, to the Roman emperor. Some are of opinion that there was a sect among the Jews called Herodians, from their maintaining that Herod was the Messias.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Aug 19, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 22:1-14
- Fri, Aug 20, 2027 (computed): St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church — Gospel, Matthew 22:34-40
- Fri, Aug 25, 2028 (computed): Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 22:34-40

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).