1One of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and publishing the good tidings, the chief priests, and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him, 2saying, Tell us by what authority you do these things; or who is he that empowered you? 3He answering, said to them, I also have a question to put to you. Tell me, then, 4Was the commission which John had to immerse, from heaven, or from men? 5But they reasoned thus among themselves, If we say, From heaven, he will reply, Why, then, did you not believe him? 6And if we say, From men, all the people will stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. 7They therefore answered, that they could not tell whence. 8Jesus replied, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. 9Then he spoke to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and farmed it out, and having traveled, continued long abroad. 10The season being come, he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to receive of the produce of the vineyard; but they beat him, and sent him back empty. 11Afterward, he sent another servant, whom they, having beaten, and used shamefully, also sent away empty. 12He afterward dispatched a third to them. Him, likewise, they wounded and drove away. 13Then the proprietor of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; they will surely reverence him, when they see him. 14But when then husbandmen saw him, they reasoned thus among themselves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our own. 15And having thrust him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What, therefore, will the proprietor of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and give the vineyard to others. And some of his hearers said, God forbid. 17«Jesus, looking on them, said, What, then, means that expression of scripture,» 'A stone which the builders rejected, is made the head of the corner.' 18«Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be bruised; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will crush him to pieces?» 19At that time, the chief priests and the scribes, knowing that he had spoken this parable against them, would have laid hands on him, but feared the people. 20And they watched him, and set spies upon him, instructing them to personate conscientious men, and surprise him in his words, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the procurator. 21These accosted him with this question, Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach uprightly, and that, without respect of persons, you faithfully recommend the way of God. 22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Cesar, or not? 23He perceiving their subtlety, answered, 24Why would you entangle me? Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription has it? They answered, Cesar's. 25He replied, Render, therefore, to Cesar, that which is Cesar's, and to God, that which is God's. 26Thus they could not surprise him in his discourses before the people; wherefore, admiring his answer, they kept silence. 27Afterward, some of the Sadducees, who deny a future state, came to him 28with this question: Rabbi, Moses has enjoined in his writings, that a man whose brother dies childless, outlived by his wife, shall marry the widow, and raise issue to his brother. 29Now there were seven brothers; the first of whom, having taken a wife, died childless; 30the second married the widow, and also died childless; 31the third married her, as did likewise the rest; and all seven died, leaving no children. 32Last of all, the woman also died. 33To which of them, therefore, will she be wife, at the resurrection; for she had been married to all the seven? 34Jesus answering, said to them, The people of this world marry, and are given in marriage; 35but, among them who shall be honored to share in the resurrection, and the other world, there will be neither marrying nor giving in marriage; 36for they can not die any more; because, like the angels, they are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37But that the dead are raised, even Moses has suggested, calling the Lord who appeared in the bush, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 38Now he is not a God of the dead, but of the living; for they are all alive to him. 39Then some of the scribes said to him, Rabbi, you have spoken well. 40After that, they did not venture to ask him any more questions. 41And he said to them, Why is it affirmed that the Messiah must be a son of David? 42«Yet David himself says, in the book of the Psalms,» 'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,' 43«till I make thy foes thy footstool.» 44As David thus calls him his Lord, how can he be David's son? 45Then, in the audience of all the people, he said to his disciples, 46Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and affect salutations in public places, and the principal seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at feasts; 47who devour the families of widows, and make long prayers for a disguise. These shall suffer the severest punishment.