The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 20
{20:1} It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the
people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the
[1>]Kohanim[<1] and [2>]Sofrim[<2] came to him with the Zakenim.
{20:2} They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these
things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
{20:3} He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:
{20:4} the immersion of Yochanan, was it from heaven, or from men?"
{20:5} They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' {20:6} But if we
say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded
that Yochanan was a prophet." {20:7} They answered that they didn't
know where it was from.
{20:8} Yeshua said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what
authority I do these things."
{20:9} He 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. {20:10} At 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. {20:11}
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him
shamefully, and sent him away empty. {20:12} He sent yet a third, and
they also wounded him, and threw him out. {20:13} The 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.'
{20:14} "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.' {20:15} They threw him out of the vineyard,
and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to
them? {20:16} He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give
the vineyard to others."
When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"
{20:17} But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is
written,
'The stone which the builders rejected,
The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
{20:18} "Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces,
But it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
{20:19} The chief [3>]Kohanim[<3] and the [4>]Sofrim[<4] sought to
lay hands on Him that very hour, but they feared the people--for they
knew He had spoken this parable against them. {20:20} They 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. {20:21} They 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. {20:22} Is it lawful for us to
pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
{20:23} But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do
you test me? {20:24} Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription
are on it?"
They answered, "Caesar's."
{20:25} He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
{20:26} They weren't able to trap him in his words before the
people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. {20:27} Some of
the Tzedukim came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
{20:28} They asked him, "Teacher, Moshe 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. {20:29} There
were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died
childless. {20:30} The second took her as wife, and he died childless.
{20:31} The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no
children, and died. {20:32} Afterward the woman also died. {20:33}
Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the
seven had her as a wife."
{20:34} Yeshua said to them, "The children of this age marry, and
are given in marriage. {20:35} But those who are considered worthy to
attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry,
nor are given in marriage. {20:36} For they can't die any more, for
they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of
the resurrection. {20:37} But that the dead are raised, even Moshe
showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Avraham, the
God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov.' {20:38} Now he is not the
God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."
{20:39} Some of the [5>]Sofrim[<5] answered, "Teacher, you speak
well." {20:40} They didn't dare to ask him any more questions.
{20:41} He said to them, "Why do they say that the Messiah is
David's son? {20:42} David himself says in the book of Tehillim,
'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at my right hand,
{20:43} Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'
{20:44} "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
{20:45} In the hearing of all the people, he said to his
[6>]talmidim[<6], {20:46} "Beware of the [7>]Sofrim[<7], 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; {20:47} who
devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these
will receive greater condemnation."
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Footnotes:
[1] {20:1} priests
[2] {20:1} scribes
[3] {20:19} priests
[4] {20:19} scribes
[5] {20:39} scribes
[6] {20:45} disciples
[7] {20:46} scribes
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