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Luke 20 📜 📕 ↷
Jesus' Authority Challenged
1 AND it came to pass in one of the days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple & evangelizing, the chief Priests & the Scribes with the Ancients assembled,📜💬📚
2 and spake saying to him, Tell us, in what power doest thou these things? Or, who is he that hath given thee this power?📜💬📚
3 And JESUS answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word. Answer me,📜💬📚
4 The baptism of John was it from Heaven, or of men?📜💬📚
5 But they thought within themselves, saying: That if we say, From Heaven, he will say: Why then did you not believe him?📜💬📚
6 But if we say, of men, the whole people will stone us: for they are certain that John is a Prophet.📜💬📚
7 And they answered that they knew not whence it was.📜💬📚
8 And JESUS said to them: Neither do I tell you in what power I do these things.📜💬📚
Parable of the Wicked Tenants
9 And he began to say to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, & let it out to husbandmen: and he was from home a long time.📜💬📚
10 And in time he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who beating him sent him away empty.📜💬📚
11 And again he sent another servant. But they beating him also and reproachfully abusing him, sent him away empty.📜💬📚
12 And again he sent the third: who wounding him also, cast him out.📜💬📚
13 And the Lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: perhaps when they shall see him, they will reverence him.📜💬📚
14 Whom when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, saying: This is the heir, let us kill him, that the heritage may be ours.📜💬📚
15 And casting him forth out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the Lord of the vineyard do to them?📜💬📚
16 He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.📜💬📚
17 But he beholding them said: What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become into the head of the corner?📜💬📚
18 Every one that falleth upon this stone, shall be quashed: and upon whom it shall fall, it shall break him to powder.📜💬📚
Paying Taxes to Caesar
19 And the chief Priests and Scribes sought to lay hands upon him that hour: and they feared the people, for they knew that he spake this similitude to them.📜💬📚
20 And watching, they sent spies which should feign themselves just: that they might take him in his talk, and deliver him to the principality and power of the President.📜💬📚
21 And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest and teachest rightly; and thou doest not accept person, but teachest the way of God in truth.📜💬📚
22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?📜💬📚
23 But considering their guile, he said to them: Why tempt you me?📜💬📚
24 Shew me a peny. Whose image hath it and inscription? They answering said: Caesar's.📜💬📚
25 And he said to them: Render therefore the things that are Caesar's, to Caesar: and the things that are God's, to God.📜💬📚
26 And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.📜💬📚
Sadducees and the Resurrection
27 And there came certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is a resurrection, and they asked him,📜💬📚
28 saying: Master, Moyses gave us in writing: If a man's brother die having a wife, and he have no children, that his brother take her to wife, and raise up seed to his brother.📜💬📚
29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.📜💬📚
30 And the next took her, & he died without child.📜💬📚
31 And the third took her. In like manner also all the seven, and they left no seed, and died.📜💬📚
32 Last of all the woman died also.📜💬📚
33 In the resurrection therefore, whose wife shall she be of them? Sithens the seven had her to wife.📜💬📚
34 And JESUS said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:📜💬📚
35 But they that shall be counted worthy of that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor take wives;📜💬📚
36 neither can they die any more, for they are equal to Angels: and they are the sons of God, seeing they are the sons of the resurrection.📜💬📚
37 But that the dead rise again, Moyses also shewed, beside the bush, as he calleth the Lord: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.📜💬📚
38 For God is not of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.📜💬📚
39 And certain of the Scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well.📜💬📚
40 And further they durst not ask him anything.📜💬📚
Whose Son Is the Christ?
41 But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of David,📜💬📚
42 and David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand,📜💬📚
43 till I put thine enemies, the footstool of thy feet?📜💬📚
44 David then calleth him Lord: and how is he his son?📜💬📚
Beware of the Scribes
45 And all the people hearing him, he said to his Disciples:📜💬📚
46 Beware of the Scribes, that will walk in robes, and love salutations in the market-place, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the chief rooms in feasts.📜💬📚
47 Which devour widows' houses: feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.📜💬📚
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