The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
(Matthew 21:33–46; Luke 20:9–18)

1And he began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and digged a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country. 2And at the proper time, he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, that he might receive from the vine-dressers of the fruit of the vineyard. 3And they took him and scourged him, and sent him away without any thing. 4And again he sent to them another servant; and at him they threw stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. 5And again he sent another; and him they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they scourged, and some they killed. 6Therefore, having yet one son, his beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying, They will reverence my son. 7But those vine-dressers said one to another, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. 8And they took him, and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. 9What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and give his vineyard to others.

10Have you not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;

11this was from the Lord, and it is wondrous in our eyes?

12And they sought to take him, but feared the multitude; for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them; and they left him, and went away.

Paying Taxes to Caesar
(Matthew 22:15–22; Luke 20:19–26)

13And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might entrap him in his words. 14And they came and said to him: Teacher, we know that you are true, and that you care for no one; for you do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? 15Must we give, or must we not give? But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them: Why do you tempt me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it. 16They brought it; and he said to them: Whose image and superscription is this? They said to him: Caesar's. 17And Jesus answered and said to them: Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they were astonished at him.

The Sadducees and the Resurrection
(Matthew 22:23–33; Luke 20:27–40)

18And the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him, and put a question to him, saying: 19Teacher, Moses wrote for us, If any man's brother die, and leave a wife, and leave no children, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up children for his brother. 20Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, left no child; 21and the second took her, and he died, and left no child; and the third, likewise; 22and the seven took her, and left no child. Last of all, the woman also died. 23Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, of which of them shall she be the wife? for the seven had her as a wife. 24And Jesus answered and said to them: Do you not err for this reason, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God? 25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven. 26But concerning the dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, at The Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 27He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Therefore, you do greatly err.

The Greatest Commandment
(Matthew 22:34–40)

28And one of the scribes came, and heard them reasoning together; and perceiving that he had answered them well, he asked him: Which is the first commandment of all? 29And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. 30And you shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole mind, and with your whole strength. This is the first commandment. 31And the second, which is like it, is this: You shall love your neighbor as your self. There is no other commandment greater than these. 32And the scribe said to him: Teacher, in truth you have well said, that there is one God, and there is no other beside him; 33and to love him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices. 34And Jesus perceiving that he answered with understanding, said to him: You are not far from the kingdom of God. And no one, after that, ventured to ask him a question.

Whose Son Is the Christ?
(Matthew 22:41–46; Luke 20:41–44)

35And Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple, answered and said: How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

36For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

37David himself, then, calls him Lord; and how is he his son? And the great multitude heard him with pleasure.

Beware of the Scribes
(Luke 20:45–47)

38And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets, 39and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers; 40who eat up the houses of widows, and, as a pretext, make long prayers: these shall receive more abundant condemnation.

The Widow’s Offering
(Luke 21:1–4)

41And Jesus, sitting opposite the treasury, observed how the multitude threw money into the treasury. And many rich persons threw in much. 42And there came one poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43And he called his disciples to him, and said to them: Verily I say to you, this poor widow has thrown in more than all that have thrown into the treasury. 44For all have thrown in out of their abundance; but she, out of her poverty, has thrown in all that she had, her whole living.