MARK 12
- And He began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it and dug a vat for a winepress and built a tower; and he leased it out to vinedressers and went abroad.
- And he sent a slave to the vinedressers at the proper time so that from the vinedressers he might take of the fruit of the vineyard.
- And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
- And again he sent to them another slave; and that one they struck on the head and dishonored.
- And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
- He had yet one, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, They will respect my son.
- But those vinedressers said to one another, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!
- And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.
- What then will the master of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers and will give the vineyard to others.
- Have you not even read this Scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner.
- This was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?
- And they sought to seize Him, yet they feared the crowd, for they perceived that it was with them in view that He spoke the parable. And leaving Him, they went away.
- And they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and Herodians that they might catch Him in His speech.
- And they came and said to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true and do not fear anyone, for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Should we give, or should we not give?
- But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do you tempt Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may look at it.
- And they brought one. And He said to them, Whose is this image and inscription? And they said to Him, Caesars.
- And Jesus said to them, The things that are Caesars render to Caesar, and the things that are Gods to God. And they marveled greatly at Him.
- And some Sadducees came to Him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they questioned Him, saying,
- Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if anyones brother dies and leaves a wife behind and leaves no child, his brother should take the wife and raise up seed to his brother.
- There were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and when he died, he left no seed;
- And the second took her and died, leaving behind no seed; and the third similarly;
- And the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died.
- In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.
- Jesus said to them, Is it not because of this that you err, that you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?
- For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in the heavens.
- But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the section concerning the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
- He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You err greatly.
