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¹AND it came to pass on one of the days, while he was teaching the people and preaching in the temple, the high priests and the scribes with the elders rose up against him. ²And they said to him, Tell us by what authority you do these things, and who gave you this authority? ³Jesus answered, saying to them, I will also ask you a question, and you tell me; ⁴The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? ⁵And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say from heaven, he will say to us, why then did you not believe him? ⁶And if we should say from men, all the people will stone us; for they regard John as a prophet. ⁷So they said to him, We do not know where it is from. ⁸Jesus said to them, Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

⁹And he began to speak this parable to the people: A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to laborers, and went on a journey for a long time. ¹⁰And at the season he sent his servant to the laborers to give him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the laborers beat him and sent him back empty. ¹¹And again he sent another of his servants; but they also beat him and treated him shamefully and sent him back empty. ¹²And again he sent the 3rd one; but they also wounded him and threw him outside. ¹³Then the owner of the vineyard said, What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will see him and feel ashamed. ¹⁴But when the laborers saw him, they reasoned with themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. ¹⁵So they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶He will come and destroy those laborers, and give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, This will never happen. ¹⁷But he looked at them and said, What is it that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same became the cornerstone? ¹⁸Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; and whomever it falls on, it will destroy. ¹⁹The high priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour; but they were afraid of the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable against them.

²⁰So they sent spies disguised as righteous men to ensnare him by a word, and to deliver him to the judge and then to the authority of the governor. ²¹So they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you speak and teach truthfully, and you do not discriminate between men, but you teach the way of God justly. ²²Is it lawful for us to pay headtax to Caesar or not? ²³But he understood their craftiness and said, Why do you tempt me? ²⁴Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it? They said, Caesar's. ²⁵Jesus said to them, Give therefore to Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God what is God's. ²⁶And they were not able to get a word from him before the people; and they were amazed at his answer, and kept silent.

²⁷Then came to him some of the men of the Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection: and they asked him, ²⁸Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother should die, and he has a wife without children, let his brother take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁹Now there were 7 brothers; the 1st married and died without children. ³⁰The 2nd married his wife, and died without children. ³¹And the 3rd one married her again; and likewise the 7 of them; and they died, leaving no children. ³²And at last the woman also died. ³³Therefore, at the resurrection, to which 1 of them will she be a wife? For 7 of them married her. ³⁴Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry women, and women are given to men in marriage. ³⁵But those who are worthy of the other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither take women in marriage nor are women given in marriage to them. ³⁶For they cannot die again, because they are like angels; and they are sons of God, because they are sons of the resurrection. ³⁷Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, even Moses pointed it out, for he referred to it at the Bush, saying, The Lord God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. ³⁸God is not the God of the dead but of the living; for all live to him. ³⁹And some of the men of the scribes answered, saying to him, Well said Teacher. ⁴⁰And they did not dare again question him concerning anything. ⁴¹And he said to them, How can the scribes say concerning the Messiah that he is son of David? ⁴²Yet David said in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, ⁴³Until I put down your enemies under your feet. ⁴⁴If, therefore David calls him my Lord, how then can he be his son? ⁴⁵And while all the people were listening, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶Beware of the scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love to be greeted in the streets, and take the chief seats in the synagogues and the high places at the banquets, ⁴⁷Those who embezzle the property of widows with the pretense that they make long prayers; they will receive a greater judgment.