Luke 20:13-47 ▼

13 Then the lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’

14 But having seen him, the farmers were reasoning with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him, so that the inheritance might become ours.’

15 And having cast him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What, therefore, will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

16 He will come and will destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” And having heard, they said, “Never may it be!”

17 But having looked at them, He said, “What then is this that has been written: ‘The stone that those building rejected, this became the head of the corner’?

18 Everyone having fallen on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it might fall, it will grind him into powder.”

19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on Him in that hour, and they feared the people. For they knew that He spoke this parable against them.

20 And having closely watched, they sent spies feigning themselves to be righteous, so that they might catch Him in His word, so as to deliver Him to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

21 And they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, we know that You speak and teach rightly and do not receive any person, but teach the way of God on the basis of truth.

22 Is it lawful for us to give tax to Caesar or not?”

23 But having perceived their craftiness, He said to them,

24 “Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?” And they said, “Caesar’s.”

25 And He said to them, “Therefore give back the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.”

26 And they were not able to catch Him in His saying before the people. And having marveled at His answer, they were silent.

27 And some of the Sadducees, the ones denying there is a resurrection, having come, questioned Him,

28 saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if anyone’s brother should die having a wife, and he should be childless, that his brother should take the wife and should raise up seed for his brother.

29 Therefore there were seven brothers. And the first, having taken a wife, died childless;

30 and the second

31 and the third took her; and likewise also the seven did not leave behind children and died.

32 Finally the woman also died.

33 Therefore, in the resurrection, the woman, of which of them does she become wife? For the seven had her as wife.”

34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

35 But those having been considered worthy to obtain that which is to the age and the resurrection that is out from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage.

36 For neither are they able to die anymore, for they are like angels, and they are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

37 But that the dead are raised even Moses showed at the bush, as he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’

38 Now He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him.”

39 And answering, some of the scribes said, “Teacher, You spoke well!”

40 For no longer did they dare to question Him anything.

41 And He said to them, “How do they say the Christ is Son of David?

42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

43 until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”’

44 David therefore calls Him ‘Lord,’ and how is He his son?”

45 And all the people hearing, He said to His disciples,

46 “Beware of the scribes, who are wanting to walk in long robes, and loving greetings in the marketplaces and first seats in the synagogues and first places at the suppers,

47 who devour the houses of widows and pray at great length as a pretext. These will receive more abundant judgment.”