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But he looking at them said, What then is this that is written, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone?
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Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.
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And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.
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And having watched [him], they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in [his] language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
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And they asked him saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and acceptest no [man's] person, but teachest with truth the way of God:
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Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
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But perceiving their deceit he said to them, Why do ye tempt me?
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Shew me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it? And answering they said, Caesar's.
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And he said to them, Pay therefore what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.
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And they were not able to take hold of him in [his] expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer, they were silent.
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And some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, coming up [to him],
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demanded of him saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother, who has a wife, die, and he die childless, his brother shall take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.
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There were then seven brethren: and the first, having taken a wife, died childless;
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and the second [took the woman, and *he* died childless];
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and the third took her: and in like manner also the seven left no children and died;
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and last of all the woman also died.
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In the resurrection therefore of which of them does she become wife, for the seven had her as wife?
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And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world marry and are given in marriage,
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but they who are counted worthy to have part in that world, and the resurrection from among [the] dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
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for neither can they die any more, for they are equal to angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
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But that the dead rise, even Moses shewed in [the section of] the bush, when he called [the] Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob;