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1 And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the peo­ple in the tem­ple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the el­ders, 2 And spake unto him, say­ing, Tell us, by what au­thor­i­ty doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this au­thor­i­ty? 3 And he an­swered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and an­swer me: 4 The bap­tism of John, was it from heav­en, or of men? 5 And they rea­soned with them­selves, say­ing, If we shall say, From heav­en; he will say, Why then be­lieved ye him not? 6 But and if we say, Of men; all the peo­ple will stone us: for they be per­suad­ed that John was a prophet. 7 And they an­swered, that they could not tell whence it was. 8 And Je­sus said unto them, Nei­ther tell I you by what au­thor­i­ty I do these things. 9 Then be­gan he to speak to the peo­ple this para­ble; A cer­tain man plant­ed a vine­yard, and let it forth to hus­band­men, and went into a far coun­try for a long time. 10 And at the sea­son he sent a ser­vant to the hus­band­men, that they should give him of the fruit of the vine­yard: but the hus­band­men beat him, and sent him away emp­ty. 11 And again he sent an­oth­er ser­vant: and they beat him al­so, and en­treat­ed him shame­ful­ly, and sent him away emp­ty. 12 And again he sent a third: and they wound­ed him al­so, and cast him out. 13 Then said the lord of the vine­yard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will rev­er­ence him when they see him. 14 But when the hus­band­men saw him, they rea­soned among them­selves, say­ing, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the in­her­i­tance may be ours. 15 So they cast him out of the vine­yard, and killed him. What there­fore shall the lord of the vine­yard do unto them? 16 He shall come and de­stroy these hus­band­men, and shall give the vine­yard to oth­ers. And when they heard it, they said, God for­bid. 17 And he be­held them, and said, What is this then that is writ­ten, The stone which the builders re­ject­ed, the same is be­come the head of the cor­ner? 18 Whoso­ev­er shall fall upon that stone shall be bro­ken; but on whom­so­ev­er it shall fall, it will grind him to pow­der. 19 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the peo­ple: for they per­ceived that he had spo­ken this para­ble against them. 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign them­selves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might de­liv­er him unto the pow­er and au­thor­i­ty of the gov­er­nor. 21 And they asked him, say­ing, Mas­ter, we know that thou sayest and teach­est right­ly, nei­ther ac­ceptest thou the per­son of any, but teach­est the way of God tru­ly: 22 Is it law­ful for us to give trib­ute unto Cae­sar, or no? 23 But he per­ceived their crafti­ness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me? 24 Shew me a pen­ny. Whose im­age and su­per­scrip­tion hath it? They an­swered and said, Caesar's. 25 And he said unto them, Ren­der there­fore unto Cae­sar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's. 26 And they could not take hold of his words be­fore the peo­ple: and they mar­velled at his an­swer, and held their peace. 27 Then came to him cer­tain of the Sad­ducees, which deny that there is any res­ur­rec­tion; and they asked him, 28 Say­ing, Mas­ter, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's broth­er die, hav­ing a wife, and he die with­out chil­dren, that his broth­er should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his broth­er. 29 There were there­fore sev­en brethren: and the first took a wife, and died with­out chil­dren. 30 And the sec­ond took her to wife, and he died child­less. 31 And the third took her; and in like man­ner the sev­en al­so: and they left no chil­dren, and died. 32 Last of all the wom­an died al­so. 33 There­fore in the res­ur­rec­tion whose wife of them is she? for sev­en had her to wife. 34 And Je­sus an­swer­ing said unto them, The chil­dren of this world mar­ry, and are giv­en in mar­riage: 35 But they which shall be ac­count­ed wor­thy to ob­tain that world, and the res­ur­rec­tion from the dead, nei­ther mar­ry, nor are giv­en in mar­riage: 36 Nei­ther can they die any more: for they are equal unto the an­gels; and are the chil­dren of God, be­ing the chil­dren of the res­ur­rec­tion. 37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he cal­leth the Lord the God of Abra­ham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Ja­cob. 38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the liv­ing: for all live unto him. 39 Then cer­tain of the scribes an­swer­ing said, Mas­ter, thou hast well said. 40 And af­ter that they durst not ask him any ques­tion at all. 41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? 42 And David him­self saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 43 Till I make thine en­e­mies thy foot­stool. 44 David there­fore cal­leth him Lord, how is he then his son? 45 Then in the au­di­ence of all the peo­ple he said unto his dis­ci­ples, 46 Be­ware of the scribes, which de­sire to walk in long robes, and love greet­ings in the mar­kets, and the high­est seats in the syn­a­gogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; 47 Which de­vour wid­ows' hous­es, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall re­ceive greater damna­tion.