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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me: |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4John's baptism--was it from heaven, or of human origin?" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why didn't you believe him?' |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But if we say, 'Of human origin,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So they answered, "We don't know where it was from." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He went on to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. 'This is the heir,' they said. 'Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "God forbid!" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "'The stone 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; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He saw through their duplicity and said to them, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" "Caesar's," they replied. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He said to them, "Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The second |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Finally, the woman died too. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord 'the God of Abraham, and 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, for to him all are alive." |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Some of the teachers of the law responded, "Well said, teacher!" |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40And no one dared to ask him any more questions. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Then Jesus said to them, "Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David? |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: "'The Lord said to 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] | 44David calls him 'Lord.' How then can he be his son?" |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46"Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely." |
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