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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Luke 20 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Luke 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/19.htm" title="Luke 19">◄</a> Luke 20 <a href="../luke/21.htm" title="Luke 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Question about Jesus' Authority</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 21:23-27">Matthew 21.23-27</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 11:27-33">Mark 11.27-33</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_1"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.1" class="v42_20_1">1</span>One day when Jesus was in the Temple teaching the people and preaching the Good News, the chief priests and the teachers of the Law, together with the elders, came </span><span class="v42_20_2"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.2" class="v42_20_2">2</span>and said to him, “Tell us, what right do you have to do these things? Who gave you such right?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_3"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.3" class="v42_20_3">3</span>Jesus answered them, “Now let me ask you a question. Tell me, </span><span class="v42_20_4"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.4" class="v42_20_4">4</span>did John's right to baptize come from God or from human beings?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_5"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.5" class="v42_20_5">5</span>They started to argue among themselves, “What shall we say? If we say, ‘From God,’ he will say, ‘Why, then, did you not believe John?’ </span><span class="v42_20_6"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.6" class="v42_20_6">6</span>But if we say, ‘From human beings,’ this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.” </span><span class="v42_20_7"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.7" class="v42_20_7">7</span>So they answered, “We don't know where it came from.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_8"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.8" class="v42_20_8">8</span>And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Parable of the Tenants in the Vineyard</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 21:33-46">Matthew 21.33-46</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 12:1-12">Mark 12.1-12</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_9"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.9" class="v42_20_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then Jesus told the people this parable: “There was once a man who planted a vineyard, rented it out to tenants, and then left home for a long time. </span><span class="v42_20_10"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.10" class="v42_20_10">10</span>When the time came to gather the grapes, he sent a slave to the tenants to receive from them his share of the harvest. But the tenants beat the slave and sent him back without a thing. </span><span class="v42_20_11"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.11" class="v42_20_11">11</span>So he sent another slave; but the tenants beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him back without a thing. </span><span class="v42_20_12"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.12" class="v42_20_12">12</span>Then he sent a third slave; the tenants wounded him, too, and threw him out. </span><span class="v42_20_13"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.13" class="v42_20_13">13</span>Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my own dear son; surely they will respect him!’ </span><span class="v42_20_14"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.14" class="v42_20_14">14</span>But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the owner's son. Let's kill him, and his property will be ours!’ </span><span class="v42_20_15"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.15" class="v42_20_15">15</span>So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_15">“What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to the tenants?” Jesus asked. </span><span class="v42_20_16"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.16" class="v42_20_16">16</span>“He will come and kill those men, and turn the vineyard over to other tenants.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_16">When the people heard this, they said, “Surely not!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_17"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.17" class="v42_20_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Jesus looked at them and asked, “What, then, does this scripture mean?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v42_20_17">‘The stone which the builders rejected as worthless</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v42_20_17">turned out to be the most important of all.’</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v42_20_18"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.18" class="v42_20_18">18</span>Everyone who falls on that stone will be cut to pieces; and if that stone falls on someone, that person will be crushed to dust.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about Paying Taxes</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 22:15-22">Matthew 22.15-22</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 12:13-17">Mark 12.13-17</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_19"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.19" class="v42_20_19">19</span>The teachers of the Law and the chief priests tried to arrest Jesus on the spot, because they knew that he had told this parable against them; but they were afraid of the people. </span><span class="v42_20_20"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.20" class="v42_20_20">20</span>So they looked for an opportunity. They bribed some men to pretend they were sincere, and they sent them to trap Jesus with questions, so that they could hand him over to the authority and power of the Roman Governor. </span><span class="v42_20_21"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.21" class="v42_20_21">21</span>These spies said to Jesus, “Teacher, we know that what you say and teach is right. We know that you pay no attention to anyone's status, but teach the truth about God's will for people. </span><span class="v42_20_22"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.22" class="v42_20_22">22</span>Tell us, is it against our Law for us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor, or not?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_23"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.23" class="v42_20_23">23</span>But Jesus saw through their trick and said to them, </span><span class="v42_20_24"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.24" class="v42_20_24">24</span>“Show me a silver coin. Whose face and name are these on it?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_24">“The Emperor's,” they answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_25"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.25" class="v42_20_25">25</span>So Jesus said, “Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_26"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.26" class="v42_20_26">26</span>There before the people they could not catch him in a thing, so they kept quiet, amazed at his answer.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about Rising from Death</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 22:23-33">Matthew 22.23-33</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 12:18-27">Mark 12.18-27</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_27"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.27" class="v42_20_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then some Sadducees, who say that people will not rise from death, came to Jesus and said, </span><span class="v42_20_28"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.28" class="v42_20_28">28</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Teacher, Moses wrote this law for us: ‘If a man dies and leaves a wife but no children, that man's brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.’ </span><span class="v42_20_29"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.29" class="v42_20_29">29</span>Once there were seven brothers; the oldest got married and died without having children. </span><span class="v42_20_30"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.30" class="v42_20_30">30</span>Then the second one married the woman, </span><span class="v42_20_31"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.31" class="v42_20_31">31</span>and then the third. The same thing happened to all seven—they died without having children. </span><span class="v42_20_32"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.32" class="v42_20_32">32</span>Last of all, the woman died. </span><span class="v42_20_33"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.33" class="v42_20_33">33</span>Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All seven of them had married her.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_34"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.34" class="v42_20_34">34</span>Jesus answered them, “The men and women of this age marry, </span><span class="v42_20_35"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.35" class="v42_20_35">35</span>but the men and women who are worthy to rise from death and live in the age to come will not then marry. </span><span class="v42_20_36"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.36" class="v42_20_36">36</span>They will be like angels and cannot die. They are the children of God, because they have risen from death. </span><span class="v42_20_37"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.37" class="v42_20_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And Moses clearly proves that the dead are raised to life. In the passage about the burning bush he speaks of the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ </span><span class="v42_20_38"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.38" class="v42_20_38">38</span>He is the God of the living, not of the dead, for to him all are alive.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_39"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.39" class="v42_20_39">39</span>Some of the teachers of the Law spoke up, “A good answer, Teacher!” </span><span class="v42_20_40"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.40" class="v42_20_40">40</span>For they did not dare ask him any more questions.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Question about the Messiah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 22:41-46">Matthew 22.41-46</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 12:35-37">Mark 12.35-37</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_41"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.41" class="v42_20_41">41</span>Jesus asked them, “How can it be said that the Messiah will be the descendant of David? </span><span class="v42_20_42"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.42" class="v42_20_42">42</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Luke.20.42!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For David himself says in the book of Psalms,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v42_20_42">‘The Lord said to my Lord:</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v42_20_42">Sit here at my right side</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v42_20_43"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.43" class="v42_20_43">43</span>until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.’</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v42_20_44"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.44" class="v42_20_44">44</span>David called him ‘Lord’; how, then, can the Messiah be David's descendant?”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jesus Warns against the Teachers of the Law</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="MAT 23:1-36">Matthew 23.1-36</ref>; <ref loc="MRK 12:38-40">Mark 12.38-40</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v42_20_45"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.45" class="v42_20_45">45</span>As all the people listened to him, Jesus said to his disciples, </span><span class="v42_20_46"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.46" class="v42_20_46">46</span>“Be on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who like to walk around in their long robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplace; who choose the reserved seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts; </span><span class="v42_20_47"><span class="reftext" id="Luke.20.47" class="v42_20_47">47</span>who take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers! 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