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And He beheld them and said, "What is this then that is written: `The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner'?
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Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder."
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And the chief priests and the scribes that same hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people; for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them.
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And they watched Him and sent forth spies, who should feign themselves to be just men, that they might take hold of His words and so they might deliver Him unto the power and authority of the governor.
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And they asked Him, saying, "Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly.
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Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar or no?"
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But He perceived their craftiness and said unto them, "Why tempt ye Me?
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Show Me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it?" They answered and said, "Caesar's."
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And He said unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things which are God's."
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And they could not take hold of His words before the people. And they marveled at His answer and held their peace.
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Then came to Him certain of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked Him,
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saying, "Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
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There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children.
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And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.
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And the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died.
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Last of all the woman died also.
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Therefore, in the resurrection whose wife is she, for seven had her as wife?"
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And Jesus answering said unto them, "The children of this world marry and are given in marriage.
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But they that shall be accounted worthy to obtain that World and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage,
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neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
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Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush when he called the Lord `the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.'