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He looked at them and said, "What then does that mean which is written, "`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the cornerstone'?
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Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."
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At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.
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So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.
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So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.
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Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"
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But He saw through their knavery and replied,
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"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
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"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."
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There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
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Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there is a Resurrection), and they asked Him,
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"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.
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The second and the third also took her;
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and all seven, having done the same, left no children when they died.
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Finally the woman also died.
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The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her."
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"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.
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But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.
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For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.
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But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord `The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'