20Luke 20

1And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him ,Select Luke 20:1

2and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'Select Luke 20:2

3And he answering said unto them, `I will question you--I also--one thing, and tell me:Select Luke 20:3

4the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'Select Luke 20:4

5And they reasoned with themselves, saying--`If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?Select Luke 20:5

6and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'Select Luke 20:6

7And they answered, that they knew not whence it was ,Select Luke 20:7

8and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'Select Luke 20:8

9And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,Select Luke 20:9

10and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send him away empty.Select Luke 20:10

11`And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;Select Luke 20:11

12and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.Select Luke 20:12

13`And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son--the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;Select Luke 20:13

14and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;Select Luke 20:14

15and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed him ; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?Select Luke 20:15

16He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'Select Luke 20:16

17and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected--this became head of a corner?Select Luke 20:17

18every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'Select Luke 20:18

19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.Select Luke 20:19

20And, having watched him , they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,Select Luke 20:20

21and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;Select Luke 20:21

22Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?'Select Luke 20:22

23And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?Select Luke 20:23

24shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'Select Luke 20:24

25and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'Select Luke 20:25

26and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.Select Luke 20:26

27And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,Select Luke 20:27

28saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless--that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.Select Luke 20:28

29`There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,Select Luke 20:29

30and the second took the wife, and he died childless,Select Luke 20:30

31and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven--they left not children, and they died;Select Luke 20:31

32and last of all died also the woman:Select Luke 20:32

33in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? --for the seven had her as wife.'Select Luke 20:33

34And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,Select Luke 20:34

35but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;Select Luke 20:35

36for neither are they able to die any more--for they are like messengers--and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.Select Luke 20:36

37`And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;Select Luke 20:37

38and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'Select Luke 20:38

39And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'Select Luke 20:39

40and no more durst they question him anything.Select Luke 20:40

41And he said unto them, `How do they say the Christ to be son of David,Select Luke 20:41

42and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,Select Luke 20:42

43till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool;Select Luke 20:43

44David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'Select Luke 20:44

45And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,Select Luke 20:45

46`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,Select Luke 20:46

47who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'Select Luke 20:47