20:1And it was done on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming the good news, the chiefs of the priests and the scribes with the elders came together, and they speak, saying to him: "Tell us by what authority you do these things? 20:2Or who is it who gave you this authority?" 20:3And Jesus, answering, said to them: "I too will ask you one word. 20:3Answer me: was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men?" 20:5But they were thinking within themselves, saying: "If we say: 'From heaven', he will say: 'Why then did you not believe him?' 20:6But if we say: 'From men', the whole people will stone us: for they are certain that John was a prophet."
20:7And they answered that they did not know where it was from. 20:8And Jesus said to them: "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things." 20:9And he began to speak to the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it out to tenant farmers: and he himself was abroad for a long time. 20:10And in due time he sent a servant to the cultivators, so that they might give him from the fruit of the vineyard. 20:10They, having beaten him, sent him away empty. 20:11And he went on to send another servant. 20:11But they, beating this one too, and treating him with insult, sent him away empty.
20:12And he went on to send a third: and they, wounding him too, threw him out. 20:13And the lord of the vineyard said: 'What shall I do? 20:13I will send my beloved son: perhaps, when they have seen him, they will respect him.' 20:14But when the tenants had seen him, they thought within themselves, saying: 'This is the heir, let us kill him, so that the inheritance may become ours.' 20:15And, having thrown him out of the vineyard, they killed him. 20:15What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 20:16He will come, and will destroy these tenants, and will give the vineyard to others." 20:16Which having been heard, they said to him: "Far be it."
20:17But he, looking at them, said: "What then is this which has been written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner'? 20:18Everyone who falls upon that stone will be shattered: but upon whomever it falls, it will crush him." 20:19And the chiefs of the priests and the scribes were seeking to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken this likeness against them. 20:20And watching him, they sent spies, who were to pretend that they were just, so that they might catch him in speech, so that they might hand him over to the rule and authority of the governor.
20:21And they asked him, saying: "Master, we know that you speak and teach rightly: and you do not accept the person, but you teach the way of God in truth. 20:22Is it allowed for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?" 20:23But perceiving their trickery, he said to them: "Why do you test me? 20:24Show me a denarius. 20:24Whose image and inscription does it have?" 20:24Answering, they said to him: "Caesar's." 20:25And he said to them: "Give back, then, the things which are Caesar's to Caesar: and the things which are God's to God." 20:26And they could not find fault with his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they were silent.
20:27And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came up, and asked him, saying: "Master, Moses wrote for us: If someone's brother has died having a wife, and he has been without children, his brother should take her as wife, and raise up seed for his brother. 20:29There were, therefore, seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without sons. 20:30And the next took her, and he himself also died without a son. 20:31And the third took her. 20:31And likewise all seven too, and they did not leave seed, and they died. 20:32Last of all the woman too died. 20:33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of them will she be?
20:33Since the seven had her as wife." 20:34And Jesus said to them: "The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage: but those who will be held worthy of that age, and of the resurrection from the dead, will neither marry, nor take wives: for neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and they are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection. 20:37But that the dead rise again, Moses too showed at the bush, as he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 20:38But God is not of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him."
20:39And some of the scribes, answering, said to him: "Master, you have spoken well." 20:40And they no longer dared to ask him anything. 20:41But he said to them: "How do they say that the Christ is the son of David? 20:42And David himself says in the book of Psalms: 'The Lord said to my Lord: sit at my right, until I place your enemies as the footstool of your feet.' 20:44David therefore calls him Lord: and how is he his son?" 20:45And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples: "Beware of the scribes, who wish to walk about in robes, and love greetings in the market-place, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the first places at banquets, who devour the houses of widows, pretending long prayer: these will receive greater condemnation."