Matthew 22:30-45

New International Version

³⁰ At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;^(A) they will be like the angels in heaven. ³¹ But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’^[a]?^(B) He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

³³ When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.^(C)

The Greatest Commandment^(D)

³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,^(E) the Pharisees got together. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law,^(F) tested him with this question: ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{[b](G) 38} This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{[c](H) 40} All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”^(I)

Whose Son Is the Messiah?^(J)

⁴¹ While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, ⁴² “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,”^(K) they replied.

⁴³ He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,

⁴⁵ If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”