Gospel According To Luke

Gospel According to Luke (MLV)

Luke 20)

^20:1 And it happened, on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the gospel, the priests and the scribes, with the elders stood up against him;^20:2 and they spoke saying to him, Tell us: By what authority do you these things? Or who is he who gave you this authority?

^20:3 And he answered and said to them, I will also ask you* a _<30>question and tell me:^20:4 The immersion* of John, was it from heaven or from men?

^20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you* not believe him?^20:6 But if we should say, From men; all the people will stone us: for* they are persuaded that John was a prophet.^20:7 And they answered that they did not know where it was from.^20:8 And Jesus said to them, Neither tell I you* by what authority I do these things.

^20:9 And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and rented it to vine-dressers and left the country for a long time.^20:10 And in the harvest season he sent to the vine-dressers a bondservant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the vine-dressers beat him and sent him away empty.^20:11 And he sent yet another bondservant and they also beat and dishonored him and sent him away empty.^20:12 And he sent yet a third and him also they wounded and cast him forth.^20:13 And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved* son; it may be that they will respect him.^20:14 But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.^20:15 And they cast him forth outside the vineyard and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?^20:16 He will come and destroy these vine-dressers and will give the vineyard to others.

And when they heard it, they said, Let it not happen!

^20:17 But he looked upon them and said, What then is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected after testing, this one has become the head of the corner?' {Ps. 118:22}^20:18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him like* dust.

^20:19 And the scribes and the high-priests sought to lay hands on him in that same hour; and they feared the people: for* they knew that he spoke this parable against them.^20:20 And they having observed him, sent forth spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, to the end they might deliver him to the rule and to the authority of the governor.^20:21 And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that you say and teach rightly and do not accept the person, but of a truth teach the way of God:^20:22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?

^20:23 But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, Why do you test me?^20:24 Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it?

And they said, Caesar's.

^20:25 And he said to them, Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.^20:26 And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people and they marveled at his answer and were silent.

^20:27 And certain of the Sadducees came to him, those who contradict that there is a resurrection;^20:28 and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and raise up seed to his brother. {Dt. 25:5}^20:29 There were therefore seven brethren and the first took a wife and died childless;^20:30 and the second:^20:31 and the third took her; and likewise the seven also left no children and died.^20:32 Afterward the woman also died.^20:33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she become? For* the seven had her to wife.

^20:34 And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage:^20:35 but those who are deemed worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:^20:36 for* neither are they able to die any more: for* they are equal to the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.^20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses disclosed, in the place concerning the Bush, when he calls the Lord, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. {Ex. 3:6}^20:38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for* all live to him.

^20:39 And certain of the scribes answering said, Teacher, you have said well.^20:40 And they did not dare any more to ask him any question.

^20:41 And he said to them, How is it that they say the Christ is David's son?^20:42 And David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, You sit you on my right hand,^20:43 Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet. {Ps. 110:1}^20:44 Therefore David calls him Lord and how is he his son?

^20:45 And he said to his disciples within the hearing of all the people,^20:46 Take-heed of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the marketplaces and chief seats in the synagogues and chief-places in the feasts;^20:47 who devour widow's houses and make long prayers for a pretense: these will receive greater condemnation.

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