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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/luke/20.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Authority of Jesus Challenged</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>One day, as Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">a</a></sup></span> was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He answered them, <span class="woc">“I also will ask you a question. Now tell me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="woc">was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they answered that they did not know where it came from. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Parable of the Wicked Tenants</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he began to tell the people this parable: <span class="woc">“A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="woc">When the time came, he sent a servant<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or bondservant; also verse 11">b</a></sup></span> to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="woc">And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="woc">Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="woc">But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="woc">And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="woc">He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”</span> When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But he looked directly at them and said, <span class="woc">“What then is this that is written:</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">“‘The stone that the builders rejected</span><br /><span class="indent">has become the cornerstone’?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek the head of the corner">c</a></sup></span></span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="woc">Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Paying Taxes to Caesar</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek and do not receive a face">d</a></sup></span> but truly teach the way of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="woc">“Show me a denarius.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer">e</a></sup></span> Whose likeness and inscription does it have?”</span> They said, “Caesar’s.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He said to them, <span class="woc">“Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.</p> <p class="heading">Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek his brother">f</a></sup></span> must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And the second <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Afterward the woman also died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="woc">but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="woc">for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek huioi; see Preface">g</a></sup></span> of the resurrection.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="woc">But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="woc">Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For they no longer dared to ask him any question.</p> <p class="heading">Whose Son Is the Christ?</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>But he said to them, <span class="woc">“How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="woc">For David himself says in the Book of Psalms,</span></p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group"><span class="woc">“‘The Lord said to my Lord,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Sit at my right hand,</span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="indent"><span class="woc">until I make your enemies your footstool.”’</span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="woc">David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”</span></p> <p class="heading">Beware of the Scribes</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="woc">“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/20-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="woc">who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Greek <i>he</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>bondservant</i>; also verse 11<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> head of the corner</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> do not receive a face</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> A <i class="catch-word">denarius</i> was a day's wage for a laborer<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Greek <i>his brother</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> Greek <i>huioi</i>; see <a href=../#sons">Preface</a><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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