Polyglot Bible: Matthew: Matthew 22

This is a parallel-text biblical document presenting Matthew 22:1–46 simultaneously in three versions: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version (KJV with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter consists of four distinct episodes: the Parable of the Wedding Banquet (vv. 1–14), in which a king's invited guests refuse or murder his servants and are replaced by strangers from the streets, ending with the notable saying "many are called, but few are chosen"; a controversy over paying taxes to Caesar (vv. 15–22), resolved by Jesus's memorable "render unto Caesar" reply; a dispute with Sadducees over the resurrection (vv. 23–33), in which Jesus argues that the resurrected live "as angels" and that God's self-identification as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob proves the dead are raised; and finally, Jesus's double-commandment summary of the Law (love God, love neighbor) followed by his counter-question about the Messiah's Davidic descent that silences all opponents. The format is a scholarly study tool rather than a devotional text, with the KJV column's embedded Strong's numbers enabling word-level comparison between the English translation and its Greek source. The chapter as a whole presents Jesus successively besting Pharisees, Herodians, and Sadducees in a series of trap-questions, culminating in Jesus posing an unanswerable riddle that ends public debate entirely.

Polyglot Bible: Matthew: Matthew 22

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