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Version 0.94.54, 23 October 2023

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Luke Chapter 20

1Now it came to pass on one of those days as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, that the priests and scribes came up to him, as did the elders, 2and they spoke to him and said, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is who has given you this authority.” 3So he answered and said to them, “I will for my part ask you one question, so you tell me, 4John's baptism – was it from heaven or from men?” 5They then debated among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven’, he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ 6But if we say, ‘From men’, all the people will stone us, for they have been persuaded that John is a prophet.” 7And they answered that they did not know where it was from. 8So Jesus said to them, “Then neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” 9He then went on to speak this parable to the people: “A man planted a vineyard, and he put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad for a considerable time. 10And in due course, he sent a servant to the farmers for them to give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers flogged him and sent him away empty-handed. 11Then he sent another servant. But they also flogged that one and treated him with indignity and sent him away empty-handed. 12Then he sent again – a third one. But they also wounded this one and threw him out. 13Then the landlord of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Maybe when they see him, they will respect him.’ 14But when the farmers saw him, they talked it through among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, so that the inheritance will become ours.’ 15So they drove him out to a place outside the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the landlord of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” And when they had heard it, they said, “May it not take place.” 17But he looked straight at them and said, “What does this scripture mean:

The stone which the builders rejected

Is what has become the keystone?

18Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and on whomever it falls, it will crush to powder.” 19Then the senior priests and the scribes looked for a way to lay hands on him at that very time, but they were afraid, for they knew that he had levelled that parable against them. 20And they watched him closely, and they sent infiltrators pretending to be sincere in order to seize on his remarks, with a view to informing on him to the administration and authority of the governor. 21And they questioned him and asked, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not show partiality, but teach the way of God in truth. 22Is it permissible for us to pay tax to Caesar, or not?” 23At this, having perceived their trickery, he said to them, “Why are you testing me? 24Show me a denary. Whose image and inscription does it have?” They answered and said, “Caesar's.” 25Then he said to them, “Well then, render to Caesar the things due to Caesar, and to God the things due to God.” 26So they were not able to seize on his remark in the presence of the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and they fell silent. 27Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came over and questioned him, 28and they said, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If someone's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother is to take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.’ 29Now suppose there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died without children. 30Then the second took the wife, and this one died without children. 31Then the third took her likewise, and like this indeed the seven of them. They did not leave any children, and they died. 32Then last of all the woman died as well. 33So in the resurrection, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven had her as a wife.” 34Then Jesus replied and said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage, 35but those who have been considered worthy of attaining to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36Nor can they die any more, for they are like angels, and they are sons of God, being members of the resurrection. 37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses disclosed, at the passage about the bush, where he says, ‘The Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ 38So he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.” 39Then some of the scribes answered and said, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40And they did not dare question him on anything any more. 41Then he said to them, “How do they say that the Christ can be the son of David, 42when David himself says in the book of the Psalms,

‘The Lord said to my Lord,

«Sit on my right hand side

43Until I make your enemies your footstool» ’?

44So David calls him Lord. So how is it that he is his son?” 45Then with all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, 46“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in robes and love greetings in the market places and the privileged seats in the synagogues and the privileged couches at dinners, 47who devour widows' houses, and for show pray at length. These will receive judgment to a greater degree.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 20: v.17 ↔ Psalm 118:22 ● v.28 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.37 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.42 ↔ Psalm 110:1 ● v.43 ↔ Psalm 110:1.

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