1On one of those days, as He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to Him with the elders. 2They asked Him, “Tell us: by what authority do You do these things? Or who is giving You this authority?”
3He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell Me: 4the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”
5They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ 6But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” 7They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.
8Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
9He 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. 10At 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. 11He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 12He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out. 13The 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.’
14“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.’ 15Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.”
When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
17But He looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written,
‘The stone which the builders rejected
was made the chief cornerstone’?
18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces,
but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
19The 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. 20They 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. 21They 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. 22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
23But He perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test Me? 24Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”
They answered, “Caesar’s.”
25He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
26They weren’t able to trap Him in His words before the people. They marveled at His answer and were silent. 27Some of the Sadducees came to Him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. 28They 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. 29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. 30The second took her as wife, and he died childless. 31The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. 32Afterward the woman also died. 33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”
34Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37But 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.’ 38Now He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to Him.”
39Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, You speak well.” 40They didn’t dare to ask Him any more questions.
41He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? 42David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
43until I make Your enemies the footstool of Your feet.”’
44“David therefore calls Him Lord, so how is He his son?”
45In the hearing of all the people, He said to His disciples, 46“Beware of those 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; 47who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
1Et factum est in una dierum, docente illo populum in templo, et evangelizante, convenerunt principes sacerdotum, et scribæ cum senioribus, 2et aiunt dicentes ad illum: Dic nobis in qua potestate hæc facis? aut quis est qui dedit tibi hanc potestatem? 3Respondens autem Jesus, dixit ad illos: Interrogabo vos et ego unum verbum. Respondete mihi: 4baptismus Joannis de cælo erat, an ex hominibus? 5At illi cogitabant intra se, dicentes: Quia si dixerimus: De cælo, dicet: Quare ergo non credidistis illi? 6Si autem dixerimus: Ex hominibus, plebs universa lapidabit nos: certi sunt enim Joannem prophetam esse. 7Et responderunt se nescire unde esset. 8Et Jesus ait illis: Neque ego dico vobis in qua potestate hæc facio. 9Cœpit autem dicere ad plebem parabolam hanc: Homo plantavit vineam, et locavit eam colonis: et ipse peregre fuit multis temporibus. 10Et in tempore misit ad cultores servum, ut de fructu vineæ darent illi. Qui cæsum dimiserunt eum inanem. 11Et addidit alterum servum mittere. Illi autem hunc quoque cædentes, et afficientes contumelia, dimiserunt inanem. 12Et addidit tertium mittere: qui et illum vulnerantes ejecerunt. 13Dixit autem dominus vineæ: Quid faciam? Mittam filium meum dilectum: forsitan, cum hunc viderint, verebuntur. 14Quem cum vidissent coloni, cogitaverunt intra se, dicentes: Hic est hæres, occidamus illum, ut nostra fiat hæreditas. 15Et ejectum illum extra vineam, occiderunt. Quid ergo faciet illis dominus vineæ? 16veniet, et perdet colonos istos, et dabit vineam aliis. Quo audito, dixerunt illi: Absit. 17Ille autem aspiciens eos, ait: Quid est ergo hoc quod scriptum est: Lapidem quem reprobaverunt ædificantes, hic factus est in caput anguli? 18Omnis qui ceciderit super illum lapidem, conquassabitur: super quem autem ceciderit, comminuet illum. 19Et quærebant principes sacerdotum et scribæ mittere in illum manus illa hora, et timuerunt populum: cognoverunt enim quod ad ipsos dixerit similitudinem hanc. 20Et observantes miserunt insidiatores, qui se justos simularent, ut caperent eum in sermone, ut traderent illum principatui, et potestati præsidis. 21Et interrogaverunt eum, dicentes: Magister, scimus quia recte dicis et doces: et non accipis personam, sed viam Dei in veritate doces. 22Licet nobis tributum dare Cæsari, an non? 23Considerans autem dolum illorum, dixit ad eos: Quid me tentatis? 24ostendite mihi denarium. Cujus habet imaginem et inscriptionem? Respondentes dixerunt ei: Cæsaris. 25Et ait illis: Reddite ergo quæ sunt Cæsaris, Cæsari: et quæ sunt Dei, Deo. 26Et non potuerunt verbum ejus reprehendere coram plebe: et mirati in responso ejus, tacuerunt. 27Accesserunt autem quidam sadducæorum, qui negant esse resurrectionem, et interrogaverunt eum, 28dicentes: Magister, Moyses scripsit nobis: Si frater alicujus mortuus fuerit habens uxorem, et hic sine liberis fuerit, ut accipiat eam frater ejus uxorem, et suscitet semen fratri suo. 29Septem ergo fratres erant: et primus accepit uxorem, et mortuus est sine filiis. 30Et sequens accepit illam, et ipse mortuus est sine filio. 31Et tertius accepit illam. Similiter et omnes septem, et non reliquerunt semen, et mortui sunt. 32Novissime omnium mortua est et mulier. 33In resurrectione ergo, cujus eorum erit uxor? siquidem septem habuerunt eam uxorem. 34Et ait illis Jesus: Filii hujus sæculi nubunt, et traduntur ad nuptias: 35illi vero qui digni habebuntur sæculo illo, et resurrectione ex mortuis, neque nubent, neque ducent uxores: 36neque enim ultra mori potuerunt: æquales enim angelis sunt, et filii sunt Dei, cum sint filii resurrectionis. 37Quia vero resurgant mortui, et Moyses ostendit secus rubum, sicut dicit Dominum, Deum Abraham, et Deum Isaac, et Deum Jacob. 38Deus autem non est mortuorum, sed vivorum: omnes enim vivunt ei. 39Respondentes autem quidam scribarum, dixerunt ei: Magister, bene dixisti. 40Et amplius non audebant eum quidquam interrogare. 41Dixit autem ad illos: Quomodo dicunt Christum filium esse David? 42et ipse David dicit in libro Psalmorum: Dixit Dominus Domino meo: sede a dextris meis, 43donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum. 44David ergo Dominum illum vocat: et quomodo filius ejus est? 45Audiente autem omni populo, dixit discipulis suis: 46Attendite a scribis, qui volunt ambulare in stolis, et amant salutationes in foro, et primas cathedras in synagogis, et primos discubitus in conviviis, 47qui devorant domos viduarum, simulantes longam orationem: hi accipient damnationem majorem.