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Or who is giving you this authority?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They answered that they didn't know where it was from. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."</p> <a name="9" id="9"></a><p class="hdg">The Parable of the Wicked Tenants<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/21.htm#33">Matthew 21:33-46</a>; <a href="../mark/12.htm">Mark 12:1-12</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."</p> <a name="19" id="19"></a><p class="hdg">Paying Taxes to Caesar<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/22.htm#15">Matthew 22:15-22</a>; <a href="../mark/12.htm#13">Mark 12:13-17</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.</p> <a name="27" id="27"></a><p class="hdg">Sadducees Question the Resurrection<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/22.htm#23">Matthew 22:23-33</a>; <a href="../mark/12.htm#18">Mark 12:18-27</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The second took her as wife, and he died childless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Afterward the woman also died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.</p> <a name="41" id="41"></a><p class="hdg">Whose Son is the Christ?<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../matthew/22.htm#41">Matthew 22:41-46</a>; <a href="../mark/12.htm#35">Mark 12:35-37</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."' <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>"David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"</p> <a name="45" id="45"></a><p class="hdg">Beware of the Scribes<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../mark/12.htm#38">Mark 12:38-40</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; <span class="reftext"><a href="/luke/20-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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