Luke 20

¹And it came to pass on one of the days, in His teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the gospel, that the chief priests and the scribes came up with the elders,

²and they spoke to Him, saying, “Tell us by what authority You do these things, or who is the one having given You this authority?”

³And answering, He said to them, “I also will ask you a word, 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, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

⁶But if we should say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John is a prophet.”

⁷And they answered that they did not know from where.

⁸And Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

⁹And He began to speak to the people this parable: “A certain man planted a vineyard, and he rented it out to farmers and traveled abroad a long time.

¹⁰And in the season, he sent a servant to the farmers, so that they will give to him from the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers sent him away empty-handed, having beaten him.

¹¹And he proceeded to send another servant, but having beaten and having dishonored that one also, they sent him away empty-handed.

¹²And he proceeded to send a third, and having wounded this one also, they cast him out.

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

¹⁴But 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.’

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

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

¹⁷But 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’?

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

¹⁹And 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.

²⁰And 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.

²¹And 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.

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

²³But 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.”

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

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

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

²⁸saying, “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.

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

³⁰and the second

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

³²Finally the woman also died.

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

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

³⁵But 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.

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

³⁷But 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.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

⁴⁵And 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,

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