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| | Luk 20:1 | On one of those days while He was teaching the people in the Temple and proclaiming the Good News, the High Priests came upon Him, and the Scribes,
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| | Luk 20:2 | together with the Elders, and they asked Him, "Tell us, By what authority are you doing these things? And who is it that gave you this authority?"
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| | Luk 20:3 | "I also will put a question to you, "He said;
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| | Luk 20:4 | "was John's baptism of Heavenly or of human origin?"
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| | Luk 20:5 | So they debated the matter with one another. "If we say `Heavenly,'" they argued, "he will say, `Why did you not believe him?'
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| | Luk 20:6 | And if we say, `human,' the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that John was a Prophet."
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| | Luk 20:7 | And they answered that they did not know the origin of it.
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| | Luk 20:8 | "Nor will I tell you," said Jesus, "by what authority I do these things."
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| | Luk 20:9 | Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.
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| | Luk 20:10 | At vintage-time he sent a servant to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.
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| | Luk 20:11 | Then he sent a second servant; and him too they beat and ill treated and sent away empty-handed.
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| | Luk 20:12 | Then again he sent a third; and this one also they wounded and drove away.
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| | Luk 20:13 | Then the owner of the vineyard said, "`What am I to do? I will send my son--my dearly-loved son: they will probably respect him.'
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| | Luk 20:14 | "But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, "`This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
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| | Luk 20:15 | "So they turned him out of the vineyard and murdered him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
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| | Luk 20:16 | He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.
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| | Luk 20:17 | He looked at them and said, "What then does that mean which is written, <"`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the cornerstone'?>
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| | Luk 20:18 | Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."
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| | Luk 20:19 | At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.
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| | Luk 20:20 | So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.
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| | Luk 20:21 | So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.
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| | Luk 20:22 | Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"
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| | Luk 20:23 | But He saw through their knavery and replied,
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| | Luk 20:24 | "Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
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| | Luk 20:25 | "Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."
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| | Luk 20:26 | There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
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| | Luk 20:27 | Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there is a Resurrection), and they asked Him,
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| | Luk 20:28 | "Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
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| | Luk 20:29 | Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.
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| | Luk 20:30 | The second and the third also took her;
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| | Luk 20:31 | and all seven, having done the same, left no children when they died.
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| | Luk 20:32 | Finally the woman also died.
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| | Luk 20:33 | The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her."
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| | Luk 20:34 | "The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.
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| | Luk 20:35 | But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.
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| | Luk 20:36 | For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.
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| | Luk 20:37 | But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord <`The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'>
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| | Luk 20:38 | He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."
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| | Luk 20:39 | Then some of the Scribes replied, "Rabbi, you have spoken well."
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| | Luk 20:40 | From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.
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| | Luk 20:41 | But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is a son of David?
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| | Luk 20:42 | Why, David himself says 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 have made thy foes a footstool under they feet.'>
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| | Luk 20:44 | "David himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?"
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| | Luk 20:45 | Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to the disciples,
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| | Luk 20:46 | "Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;
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| | Luk 20:47 | who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."
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