He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower. He leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
At the season he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from the tenants of the vineyard some of the fruit of the vineyard.
But they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
Again he sent another servant. But they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
Again he sent a third. This one also they wounded, and cast out.
The owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’
But those tenants said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
They took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner;’
‘This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
They sought to lay hands on him, but feared the multitude; for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him, and went away.
They sent to him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
When they came, they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God truthfully, and care for no one. For you do not regard the person of men.
Tell us, then, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
But Jesus, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”
They brought it. He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled at him.
Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him,
“Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.
There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died, leaving no offspring.
The second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. The third likewise;
and the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.
In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this the reason you err, because you don’t know the scriptures, nor the power of God?
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
But concerning the dead, that they rise—have you not read in the book of Moses, in the bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are greatly mistaken.”
One of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is first of all?”
Jesus answered, “The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The scribe said to him, “Well, Teacher, you have said the truth. There is one God, and there is no other but he;
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Jesus, seeing that he answered wisely, said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that no one dared ask him any question.
Jesus taught in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk around in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
and chief seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
Jesus sat opposite the treasury, and saw how the people put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in much.
A certain poor widow came, and put in two mites, which make a farthing.
He called his disciples to him, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who have put into the treasury.
For all these out of their abundance put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, even all her living.”
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