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| | Luk 20:1 | One day as he was teaching the people in the temple courts and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him.
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| | Luk 20:2 | "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things," they said. "Who gave you this authority?"
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| | Luk 20:3 | He replied, "I will also ask you a question. Tell me,
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| | Luk 20:4 | John's baptism--was it from heaven, or from men?"
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| | Luk 20:5 | They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, `From heaven,' he will ask, `Why didn't you believe him?'
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| | Luk 20:6 | But if we say, `From men,' all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
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| | Luk 20:7 | So they answered, "We don't know where it was from."
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| | Luk 20:8 | Jesus said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."
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| | Luk 20:9 | He went on to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.
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| | Luk 20:10 | At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
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| | Luk 20:11 | He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.
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| | Luk 20:12 | He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.
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| | Luk 20:13 | "Then the owner of the vineyard said, `What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.'
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| | Luk 20:14 | "But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. `This is the heir,' they said. `Let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
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| | Luk 20:15 | So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
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| | Luk 20:16 | He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never be!"
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| | Luk 20:17 | Jesus looked directly at them and asked, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: "`The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone ' ?
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| | Luk 20:18 | Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed."
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| | Luk 20:19 | The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
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| | Luk 20:20 | Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.
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| | Luk 20:21 | So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
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| | Luk 20:22 | Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
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| | Luk 20:23 | He saw through their duplicity and said to them,
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| | Luk 20:24 | "Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it?"
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| | Luk 20:25 | "Caesar's," they replied. He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
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| | Luk 20:26 | They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.
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| | Luk 20:27 | Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
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| | Luk 20:28 | "Teacher," they said, "Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and have children for his brother.
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| | Luk 20:29 | Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
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| | Luk 20:30 | The second
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| | Luk 20:31 | and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
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| | Luk 20:32 | Finally, the woman died too.
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| | Luk 20:33 | Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?"
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| | Luk 20:34 | Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
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| | Luk 20:35 | But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,
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| | Luk 20:36 | and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God's children, since they are children of the resurrection.
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| | Luk 20:37 | But in the account of the bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord `the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
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| | Luk 20:38 | He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."
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| | Luk 20:39 | Some of the teachers of the law responded, "Well said, teacher!"
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| | Luk 20:40 | And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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| | Luk 20:41 | Then Jesus said to them, "How is it that they say the Christ is the Son of David?
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| | Luk 20:42 | David himself declares in the Book of Psalms: "`The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand
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| | Luk 20:43 | until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'
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| | Luk 20:44 | David calls him `Lord.' How then can he be his son?"
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| | Luk 20:45 | While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,
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| | Luk 20:46 | "Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
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| | Luk 20:47 | They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely."
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