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| | Jesus began to teach them parables. "A businessman planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it. He dug a place for the windpress, built a tower, rented it to tenant vinedressers, and traveled abroad. When the grape season arrived, he sent one of his slaves to them, to return with the fruit of the vineyard. But they caught him, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed. So the owner sent another slave, but they threw stones at him, wounding him in the head. He too was rebuffed, badly treated. He sent a third, and they killed him, as well as many others. They beat some, killed some. He still had a son, whom he loved, and sent him to them last, thinking they would respect his son. But the tenants plotted with each other: 'This is his heir. If we kill him, we can take the inheritance.' So they killed him and left his body outside the vineyard. So what should the vineyard owner do? He will return to annihilate the tenants and give the vineyard to other, more honest tenants. Have you not read in the scripture, 'The stone rejected by the builders becomes the cornerstone. This is the Lord's way, and it is wonderful to see'?" | | Jesus began to teach them parables. "A businessman planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it. He dug a place for the windpress, built a tower, rented it to tenant vinedressers, and traveled abroad. When the grape season arrived, he sent one of his slaves to them, to return with the fruit of the vineyard. But they caught him, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed. So the owner sent another slave, but they threw stones at him, wounding him in the head. He too was rebuffed, badly treated. He sent a third, and they killed him, as well as many others. They beat some, killed some. He still had a son, whom he loved, and sent him to them last, thinking they would respect his son. But the tenants plotted with each other: 'This is his heir. If we kill him, we can take the inheritance.' So they killed him and left his body outside the vineyard. So what should the vineyard owner do? He will return to annihilate the tenants and give the vineyard to other, more honest tenants. Have you not read in the scripture, 'The stone rejected by the builders becomes the cornerstone. This is the Lord's way, and it is wonderful to see'?" |
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| | + | Furious, the intellectual classes wanted to seize him, but feared the public; they knew this parable was directed at them. They gave up for now and walked out. Instead they chose a group of Pharisees and Herodians, and sent them to Jesus to try and catch Him out by using His own words against Him. When they came, they said to Him, "Teacher, we know that You are true, and play no favorites among men. You are no Respecter of persons, but teach the Way of God in truth. Now: is it lawful to pay capitation taxes to Caesar, or not? What do we do: give, nor not?" But He, knowing full well how hypocritical they were, said to them, "Why are you always testing Me? Bring me a shilling, so that I may examine it." |
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| | + | They brought one. He said to them, "Whose face and epigram is this?" They told him, "Caesar's." In answer, Jesus told them, "Give Caesar what is Caesar's, and God what is God's." And they were struck completely speechless by Him. |
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| | + | Then some Sadducees came to Him. They say that there is no such thing as the resurrection. They asked Him, "Teacher, Moses wrote this law: 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife but no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up a son to inherit his brother's estate.' Now there were seven brothers. The first married a wife, and died without issue. Then the second married her, then died, and also left no issue. So did the third. Indeed all seven married her, and left no issue. Last of all the woman died. Now: in the resurrection, when they're all risen from the dead, whose wife will she be? After all, all seven married her!" |
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| | + | Jesus replied, "You are mistaken, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. You see, when they rise from the dead, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They'll be like God's Messengers in heaven. And while we're on the subject: I'll prove to you that the dead will rise. Haven't you read in the Books of Moses, how God spoke to him in a burning bush, saying, 'I am the God of [[Abraham]], and the God of [[Isaac]], and the God of [[Jacob]]?' He isn't the God of dead men, but the God of living men. So you are vastly mistaken." |
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| | + | One of the scribes came, who had heard them debating this issue, and realizing that He had given a good answer to the riddle. So he asked Him, "Which is the most important commandment of all?" Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One." And you will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your mind, and all your strength. This is the most important commandment. The second most important commandment is just like it: you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. No other commandment is more important than these two." The scribe said back to Him, "Well, Teacher, You speak the truth: 'There is one God, and there is no one else but Him, and to love Him with all the heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love one's neighbor as one loves himself, is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices a man can make.'" |
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| | + | Jesus saw that he had given a sensible answer. So He said to him, "You aren't far from the Kingdom of God." After that, no man dared ask Him anything. Jesus said in answer, while He was teaching in the Temple, "How can the scribes say that Christ is the Son of [[David]]? After all, David himself said, under the influence of the Divine Guide, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit on My right hand, until I make Your enemies something to put Your feet on."' So David himself calls Him Lord. So how can He be his son?" And many people were glad to hear this. |
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| | + | In His lessons He told them, "Watch out for the scribes. They want to go about in long clothing, and want people to greet them in the public square. They want the seats of honor in the synagogues, and the ranking dining rooms at banquets. And they also devour widows' homes, and put up a pretense by making long prayers. They will receive an even greater punishment." |
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| − | |<span id="12:13"></span>And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
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| − | |<span id="12:14"></span>And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
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| − | |Literally, '''κηνσος''' or ''kensos'', a transliteration of the Latin ''census''. This was a head tax collected at the census. [[Joseph of Nazareth]] and his wife [[Mary]] had to pay such a tax.
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| − | |In answer, Jesus told them, "Give Caesar what is Caesar's, and God what is God's." And they were struck completely speechless by Him.
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| − | |<span id="12:18"></span>Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
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| − | |Then some Sadducees came to Him. They say that there is no such thing as the resurrection. They asked Him,
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| − | |The Sadducees, followers of one Zadok, discounted anything "mystical" or miraculous in the [[Bible]]. Today, they would probably be [[evolutionism|evolutionists]].
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| − | |<span id="12:19"></span>Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
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| − | |"Teacher, Moses wrote this law: 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife but no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up a son to inherit his brother's estate.'
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| − | |<span id="12:20"></span>Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
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| − | |<span id="12:22"></span>And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
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| − | |Indeed all seven married her, and left no issue. Last of all the woman died.
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| − | |<span id="12:23"></span>In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
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| − | |Now: in the resurrection, when they're all risen from the dead, whose wife will she be? After all, all seven married her!"
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| − | |This Levirate Riddle is quite similar to the [[Logical fallacy|logically fallacious]] arguments that evolutionists raise against [[creationism|creationists]] today.
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| − | |<span id="12:24"></span>And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
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| − | |<span id="12:25"></span>For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
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| − | |You see, when they rise from the dead, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. They'll be like God's Messengers in heaven.
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| − | |Meaning, the [[angels]]. Here is a declaration that angels do not procreate, nor will resurrected people be in a position to repopulate the earth after the War of Armageddon (see Revelation 19).
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| − | |<span id="12:26"></span>And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
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| − | |<span id="12:27"></span>He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
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| − | |<span id="12:28"></span>And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
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| − | |<span id="12:29"></span>And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
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| − | |Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One."
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| − | |<span id="12:30"></span>And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
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| − | |<span id="12:31"></span>And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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| − | |The second most important commandment is just like it: you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. No other commandment is more important than these two."
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| − | |<span id="12:34"></span>And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
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