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Luke Chapter 20 020:001 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the {TR adds "chief"}priests and scribes came to him with the elders. 020:002 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?" 020:003 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question.
Tell me: 020:004 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" 020:005 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' 020:006 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." 020:007 They answered that they didn't know where it was from. 020:008 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." 020:009 He began to tell the people this parable.
"A {NU (in brackets) and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. 020:010 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. 020:011 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 020:012 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.
020:013 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' 020:014 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' 020:015 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
020:016 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!" 020:017 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'{Psalm 118:22} 020:018 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust." 020:019 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
020:020 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. 020:021 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 020:022 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 020:023 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? 020:024 Show me a denarius.
Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's." 020:025 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 020:026 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. 020:027 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
020:028 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. 020:029 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. 020:030 The second took her as wife, and he died childless. 020:031 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. 020:032 Afterward the woman also died.
020:033 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife." 020:034 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. 020:035 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. 020:036 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
020:037 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6} 020:038 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." 020:039 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." 020:040 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions. 020:041 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?
020:042 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, 020:043 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1} 020:044 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" 020:045 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, 020:046 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; 020:047 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."