17
But he beheld them, and said, What then is this that is written, The stone which men building reproved, this is made into the head of the corner?
18
Each that shall fall on that stone, shall be bruised, but on whom it shall fall, it shall break him all to pieces. [+Each that shall fall upon that stone, shall be scattered, or broken; forsooth on whom it shall fall, it shall break him into small parts.]
19
And the princes of priests, and [the] scribes, sought to lay on him hands in that hour [sought to lay hands on him in that hour], and they dreaded the people; for they knew that to them he said this likeness.
20
And they espied, and sent spies, that feigned them[selves] just [which feigned themselves just], that they should take him in word, and betake him to the power of the prince, and to the power of the justice.
21
And they asked him, and said, Master, we know, that rightly thou sayest and teachest [And they asked him, saying, Master, we know, that thou sayest and teachest rightly]; and thou takest not the person of man, but thou teachest in truth the way of God.
22
Is it leaveful to us to give tribute to the emperor, or nay? [Is it leaveful to us for to give tribute to Caesar, or nay?]
23
And he beheld the deceit of them, and said to them, What tempt ye me?
24
Show ye to me a penny; whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and said to him, The emperor's [They answering said to him, Caesar's].
25
And he said to them, Yield ye therefore to the emperor those things that be the emperor's [Yield ye therefore to Caesar those things that be Caesar's], and those things that be of God, to God.
26
And they might not reprove his word before the people; and they wondered in his answer, and held peace.
27
Some of the Sadducees, that denied the again-rising from death to life [that deny resurrection for to be], came, and asked him,