Luke 20:14-28

¹⁴But when they saw him coming, the farmers said to themselves, ‘This is the owner's heir. Let's kill him! That way we can take his inheritance.’

¹⁵They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He will come and kill these farmers and let others have the vineyard.” When they heard the story, they said, “May this never happen!”

¹⁷But Jesus looked at them and said, “Then why is it written in the Scriptures, ‘The stone the builders rejected has now become the chief cornerstone’?

¹⁸Anyone who falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; anyone it falls upon will be crushed.”

¹⁹Immediately the religious teachers and the chief priests wanted to arrest him because they realized that the story Jesus told was aimed at them, but they were afraid of what the people would do.

²⁰Watching for an opportunity they sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They tried to catch Jesus out in something he said so they could hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.

²¹They said, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is good and right, and that you're not swayed by the opinions of others. You truly teach the way of God.

²²So should we pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

²³But Jesus saw through their trickery, and said to them,

²⁴“Show me a coin—a denarius. Whose image and inscription is on it?” “Caesar's,” they answered.

²⁵“Then give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give back to God what belongs to God,” he told them.

²⁶They weren't able to trap him by what he told the people. They were stunned at his reply, and fell silent.

²⁷Then some of the Sadducees, who deny the resurrection, came to Jesus with this question:

²⁸“Teacher,” they began, “Moses gave us a law that if a married man dies leaving a wife without children, then his brother should marry the widow and have children for his dead brother.