Luke 20:22-47 ▼

22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not.

23 And having perceived their craft, he said to them, Why tempt ye me?

24 Show me drachma. Whose image and inscription has it? And having answered they said, Caesar's.

25 And he said to them, Return therefore to Caesar, Caesar's things, and to God the things of God.

26 And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

27 And certain of the Sadducees having approached, speaking against there being a rising up, asked him,

28 Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother die having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

29 Therefore were there seven brethren: and the first having taken a wife, died without children.

30 And the second took the wife, and he died without children.

31 And the third took her; and likewise also the seven: and they left no children, and died.

32 And after all died the woman also.

33 Then in the rising up, whose wife of them is she for seven had her a wife.

34 And Jesus having answered, said to them, The sons of this life marry, and are given in marriage.

35 And they having been deemed worthy to obtain that life, and the rising up of the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

36 For neither can they die any more: for they are like to messengers; and are sons of God, being the sons of the rising up.

37 And that the dead are raised, Moses made known at the bramble, when he calls the Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.

38 And he is not God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

39 And certain of the scribes having answered, said, Teacher, thou speakest well.

40 And they dared no more to ask him anything.

41 And he said to them, how say they Christ to be son of David?

42 And David himself says in the book of Psalms, the Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou from my right hand,

43 Even till I set thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

44 David therefore calls him Lord, and how is be his son?

45 And all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

46 Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers;

47 Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.