27 Some
of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a
question. 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 raise up offspring for his brother. 29 Now there were
seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. 30 The
second 31 and then the third married her, and in the same way
the seven died, leaving no children. 32 Finally, the woman died
too. 33 Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be,
since the seven were married to her?”
34 Jesus
replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But
those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the
resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 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. 37 But in the
account of the burning 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.’[b]38 He
is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
39 Some
of the teachers of the law responded, “Well said, teacher!” 40 And
no one dared to ask him any more questions.
20 Keeping
a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped
to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the
power and authority of the governor. 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. 22 Is
it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
23 He
saw through their duplicity and said to them, 24 “Show me a
denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”
“Caesar’s,”
they replied.
25 He
said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is
God’s.”
26 They
were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by
his answer, they became silent.
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. 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. 11 He
sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and
sent away empty-handed. 12 He sent still a third, and they
wounded him and threw him out.
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.’
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.’ 15 So
they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“What
then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come
and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”
When
the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
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 cornerstone’[a]?
18 Everyone
who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will
be crushed.”
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.
