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Who is it who gave you this authority?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>So they answered that they did not know where it came from. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Parable of the Wicked Tenants</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went to another country for a long time. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Next he sent another slave; that one also they beat and insulted and sent away empty-handed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>And he sent still a third; this one also they wounded and threw out. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But when the tenants saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But he looked at them and said, “What then does this text mean:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘The stone that the builders rejected</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">has become the cornerstone’?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30060a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about Paying Taxes</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said, so as to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and you show deference to no one, but teach the way of God in accordance with truth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>But he perceived their craftiness and said to them, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“Show me a denarius. Whose head and whose title does it bear?” They said, “The emperor’s.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>He said to them, “Then give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>And they were not able in the presence of the people to trap him by what he said; and being amazed by his answer, they became silent.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about the Resurrection</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30071b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>then the second </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Finally the woman also died. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>For they no longer dared to ask him another question.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Question about David’s Son</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Then he said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30084c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> is David’s son? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>For David himself says in the book of Psalms,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">‘The Lord said to my Lord,</span><br /><span class="text">“Sit at my right hand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>until I make your enemies your footstool.”’</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>David thus calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jesus Denounces the Scribes</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>In the hearing of all the people he said to the<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30088d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> disciples, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">47</span>They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 20:17">Luke 20:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>keystone</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 20:28">Luke 20:28</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>his brother</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 20:41">Luke 20:41</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Luke 20:45">Luke 20:45</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>his</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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