Luke 20:6-33
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Chapter 20
6But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet." 7So they answered that they did not know where it came from. 8And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."
9And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
10When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
11And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
12And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.
13Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’
14But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’
15And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
16He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "Surely not!"
17But he looked directly at them and said, "What then is this that is written: "‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
19The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.
20So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
21So they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
22Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?"
23But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
24"Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar 's."
25He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar 's, and to God the things that are God 's."
26And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.
27There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
28and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man 's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
29Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.
30And the second
31and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.
32Afterward the woman also died.
33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."
