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Luke 20

The Message Bible MSG

1 One day he was teaching the people in the Temple, proclaiming the Message. The high priests, religion scholars, and leaders confronted

2 him and demanded, "Show us your credentials. Who authorized you to speak and act like this?"

3 Jesus answered, "First, let me ask you a question:

4 About the baptism of John - who authorized it, heaven or humans?"

5 They were on the spot, and knew it. They pulled back into a huddle and whispered, "If we say 'heaven,' he'll ask us why we didn't believe him;

6 if we say 'humans,' the people will tear us limb from limb, convinced as they are that John was God's prophet."

7 They agreed to concede that round to Jesus and said they didn't know.

8 Jesus said, "Then neither will I answer your question."

9 Jesus told another story to the people: "A man planted a vineyard. He handed it over to farmhands and went off on a trip. He was gone a long time.

10 In time he sent a servant back to the farmhands to collect the profits, but they beat him up and sent him off empty-handed.

11 He decided to try again and sent another servant. That one they beat black and blue, and sent him off empty-handed.

12 He tried a third time. They worked that servant over from head to foot and dumped him in the street.

13 "Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'I know what I'll do: I'll send my beloved son. They're bound to respect my son.'

14 "But when the farmhands saw him coming, they quickly put their heads together. 'This is our chance - this is the heir! Let's kill him and have it all to ourselves.'

15 They killed him and threw him over the fence. "What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?

16 Right. He'll come and clean house. Then he'll assign the care of the vineyard to others." Those who were listening said, "Oh, no! He'd never do that!"

17 But Jesus didn't back down. "Why, then, do you think this was written: That stone the masons threw out - It's now the cornerstone!?

18 "Anyone falling over that stone will break every bone in his body; if the stone falls on anyone, it will be a total smashup."

19 The religion scholars and high priests wanted to lynch him on the spot, but they were intimidated by public opinion. They knew the story was about them.

20 Watching for a chance to get him, they sent spies who posed as honest inquirers, hoping to trick him into saying something that would get him in trouble with the law.

21 So they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you're honest and straightforward when you teach, that you don't pander to anyone but teach the way of God accurately.

22 Tell us: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

23 He knew they were laying for him and said,

24 "Show me a coin. Now, this engraving, who does it look like and what does it say?"

25 "Caesar," they said. Jesus said, "Then give Caesar what is his and give God what is his."

26 Try as they might, they couldn't trap him into saying anything incriminating. His answer caught them off guard and left them speechless.

27 Some Sadducees came up. This is the Jewish party that denies any possibility of resurrection. They asked,

28 "Teacher, Moses wrote us that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to take the widow to wife and get her with child.

29 Well, there once were seven brothers. The first took a wife. He died childless.

30 The second married her and died,

31 then the third, and eventually all seven had their turn, but no child.

32 After all that, the wife died.

33 That wife, now - in the resurrection whose wife is she? All seven married her."

34 Jesus said, "Marriage is a major preoccupation here,

35 but not there. Those who are included in the resurrection of the dead will no longer be concerned with marriage

36 nor, of course, with death. They will have better things to think about, if you can believe it. All ecstasies and intimacies then will be with God.

37 Even Moses exclaimed about resurrection at the burning bush, saying, 'God: God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob!'

38 God isn't the God of dead men, but of the living. To him all are alive."

39 Some of the religion scholars said, "Teacher, that's a great answer!"

40 For a while, anyway, no one dared put questions to him.

41 Then he put a question to them: "How is it that they say that the Messiah is David's son?

42 In the Book of Psalms, David clearly says, God said to my Master, "Sit here at my right hand

43 until I put your enemies under your feet."

44 "David here designates the Messiah as 'my Master' - so how can the Messiah also be his 'son'?"

45 With everybody listening, Jesus spoke to his disciples.

46 "Watch out for the religion scholars. They love to walk around in academic gowns, preen in the radiance of public flattery, bask in prominent positions, sit at the head table at every church function.

47 And all the time they are exploiting the weak and helpless. The longer their prayers, the worse they get. But they'll pay for it in the end."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 et factum est in una dierum docente illo populum in templo et evangelizante convenerunt principes sacerdotum et scribae cum senioribus

2 et aiunt dicentes ad illum dic nobis in qua potestate haec facis aut quis est qui dedit tibi hanc potestatem

3 respondens autem dixit ad illos interrogabo vos et ego verbum respondete mihi

4 baptismum Iohannis de caelo erat an ex hominibus

5 at illi cogitabant inter se dicentes quia si dixerimus de caelo dicet quare ergo non credidistis illi

6 si autem dixerimus ex hominibus plebs universa lapidabit nos certi sunt enim Iohannem prophetam esse

7 et responderunt se nescire unde esset

8 et Iesus ait illis neque ego dico vobis in qua potestate haec facio

9 coepit autem dicere ad plebem parabolam hanc homo plantavit vineam et locavit eam colonis et ipse peregre fuit multis temporibus

10 et in tempore misit ad cultores servum ut de fructu vineae darent illi qui caesum dimiserunt eum inanem

11 et addidit alterum servum mittere illi autem hunc quoque caedentes et adficientes contumelia dimiserunt inanem

12 et addidit tertium mittere qui et illum vulnerantes eiecerunt

13 dixit autem dominus vineae quid faciam mittam filium meum dilectum forsitan cum hunc viderint verebuntur

14 quem cum vidissent coloni cogitaverunt inter se dicentes hic est heres occidamus illum ut nostra fiat hereditas

15 et eiectum illum extra vineam occiderunt quid ergo faciet illis dominus vineae

16 veniet et perdet colonos istos et dabit vineam aliis quo audito dixerunt illi absit

17 ille autem aspiciens eos ait quid est ergo hoc quod scriptum est lapidem quem reprobaverunt aedificantes hic factus est in caput anguli

18 omnis qui ceciderit supra illum lapidem conquassabitur supra quem autem ceciderit comminuet illum

19 et quaerebant principes sacerdotum et scribae mittere in illum manus illa hora et timuerunt populum cognoverunt enim quod ad ipsos dixerit similitudinem istam

20 et observantes miserunt insidiatores qui se iustos simularent ut caperent eum in sermone et traderent illum principatui et potestati praesidis

21 et interrogaverunt illum dicentes magister scimus quia recte dicis et doces et non accipis personam sed in veritate viam Dei doces

22 licet nobis dare tributum Caesari an non

23 considerans autem dolum illorum dixit ad eos quid me temptatis

24 ostendite mihi denarium cuius habet imaginem et inscriptionem respondentes dixerunt Caesaris

25 et ait illis reddite ergo quae Caesaris sunt Caesari et quae Dei sunt Deo

26 et non potuerunt verbum eius reprehendere coram plebe et mirati in responso eius tacuerunt

27 accesserunt autem quidam Sadducaeorum qui negant esse resurrectionem et interrogaverunt eum

28 dicentes magister Moses scripsit nobis si frater alicuius mortuus fuerit habens uxorem et hic sine filiis fuerit ut accipiat eam frater eius uxorem et suscitet semen fratri suo

29 septem ergo fratres erant et primus accepit uxorem et mortuus est sine filiis

30 et sequens accepit illam et ipse mortuus est sine filio

31 et tertius accepit illam similiter et omnes septem et non reliquerunt semen et mortui sunt

32 novissima omnium mortua est et mulier

33 in resurrectione ergo cuius eorum erit uxor siquidem septem habuerunt eam uxorem

34 et ait illis Iesus filii saeculi huius nubunt et traduntur ad nuptias

35 illi autem qui digni habebuntur saeculo illo et resurrectione ex mortuis neque nubunt neque ducunt uxores

36 neque enim ultra mori poterunt aequales enim angelis sunt et filii sunt Dei cum sint filii resurrectionis

37 quia vero resurgant mortui et Moses ostendit secus rubum sicut dicit Dominum Deum Abraham et Deum Isaac et Deum Iacob

38 Deus autem non est mortuorum sed vivorum omnes enim vivunt ei

39 respondentes autem quidam scribarum dixerunt magister bene dixisti

40 et amplius non audebant eum quicquam interrogare

41 dixit autem ad illos quomodo dicunt Christum Filium David esse

42 et ipse David dicit in libro Psalmorum dixit Dominus Domino meo sede a dextris meis

43 donec ponam inimicos tuos scabillum pedum tuorum

44 David ergo Dominum illum vocat et quomodo filius eius est

45 audiente autem omni populo dixit discipulis suis

46 adtendite a scribis qui volunt ambulare in stolis et amant salutationes in foro et primas cathedras in synagogis et primos discubitus in conviviis

47 qui devorant domos viduarum simulantes longam orationem hii accipient damnationem maiorem