And it came to pass on one of the days as he was teaching the people in the temple and evangelizing, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came up,
and spoke to him, saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things; or who is it that has given thee this authority.
And he answering said to them, I also will ask you a word [thing], and tell me:
The baptism of John, was it of heaven, or of men?
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why have ye not believed him?
but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.
And they answered that they did not know whence [it was].
And Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.
And in the season he sent to the husbandmen a bondman that they might give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; but the husbandmen having beaten him sent [him] away empty.
And again he sent another bondman; but they having beaten him also, and cast insult upon him sent [him] away empty.
And again he sent a third, and they having wounded him also, cast [him] out.
And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do. I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they see they will respect [him].
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.
And having cast him forth out of the vineyard they killed [him]. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?
He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!
But he looking at them said, What then is this that is written? The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner stone.
Every one falling on this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall crush him to powder.
And the scribes and the chief priests that very hour sought to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.
And having watched [him] they sent suborned persons pretending to be righteous that they might lay hold of his language so as to deliver him to the power and the authority of the governor .
And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou rightly sayest and teachest and acceptest no [man’s] person, but in truth teachest the way of God.
Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar or not?
But perceiving their deceit he said to them,
Show me a denarius. Whose image and title has it? And answering they said, Caesar’s.
And he said to them, Therefore render the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.
And they were not able to lay hold of his word before the people, and wondering at his answer were silent.
And some of the Sadducees who deny that there is any resurrection came up, and demanded of him,
saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If anyone’s brother having a wife die and he be childless, that his brother take the wife, and raise up seed to his brother.
There were then seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless;
and the third, took her; and likewise also the seven left no children and died;
and lastly the woman died.
In the resurrection therefore, of which of them does the woman become wife? For the seven had her as wife.
And Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;
but those deemed worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from among [the] dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
for they can die no more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
But that the dead rise even Moses showed [in the section] on the bush when he called Jehovah the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.
But he is not God of dead but of living, for all live to him.
And some of the scribes answering said, Teacher, thou hast well said.
For they did not dare any more to ask him anything.
And he said to them, How do they say that the Christ is David’s son;
and David himself saith in the book of Psalms, Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet?
David therefore calleth him Lord; and how is he his son?
And as all the people were listening, he said to the disciples:
Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues and first places at the feasts,
who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive more abundant judgment.