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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One day, while Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple and telling them the good news, the high priests and the scribes came with the elders |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and asked him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He answered them, "I, too, will ask you a question. Tell me: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans?" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They discussed this among themselves: "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why didn't you believe him?' |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But if we say, 'From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So they answered that they didn't know where it was from. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then Jesus told them, "Then I won't tell you by what authority I'm doing these things." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went abroad for a long time. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then he sent a third, and they wounded him and threw him out, too. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I'll send my son whom I love. Maybe they'll respect him.' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But when the farmers saw him, they talked it over among themselves and said, 'This is the heir. Let's kill him so that the inheritance will be ours!' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But Jesus looked at them and asked, "What does this text mean: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21so they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you're right in what you say and teach, and that you don't favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But he discerned their craftiness and responded to them, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Show me a denarius. Whose face and name does it have?" "Caesar's," they replied. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now some Sadducees, who claim there is no resurrection, came to Jesus |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died childless. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Then the second |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31and the third married her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Finally, the woman died, too. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Now in the resurrection, whose wife will the woman be, since the seven had married her?" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus told them, "Those who belong to this age marry and are married, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Nor can they die anymore, because they are like the angels and, since they share in the resurrection, are God's children. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Even Moses demonstrated in the story about the bush that the dead are raised, when he calls the Lord, 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him." |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Then some of the scribes replied, "Teacher, you have given a fine answer." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then they no longer dared to ask him another question. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Then he asked them, "How can people say that the Messiah is David's son? |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Because David himself in the book of Psalms says, 'The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."' |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44So David calls him 'Lord.' Then how can he be his son?" |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45While all the people were listening, he told his disciples, |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!" |
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