Luke 20:14-28

¹⁴But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.

¹⁵So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What then will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He will come and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard this, they said, God forbid!

¹⁷But he, looking upon them, said, What then is this which is written, “The stone which the builders rejected, the same hath become the corner-stone”?

¹⁸Every one who falleth upon that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falleth, it will grind him to powder.

¹⁹And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him in that hour, but they feared the people; for they knew that he spoke this parable against them.

²⁰And they kept watch on him, and sent forth spies feigning themselves to be righteous men, that they might take hold of his words, in order to deliver him up to the civil power and to the authority of the governor.

²¹And they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and hast no regard to the person of men, but teachest the way of God truly.

²²Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

²³But perceiving their craftiness, he said to them,

²⁴Show me a denary. Whose image and inscription hath it? And they answered and said, Caesar's.

²⁵And he said to them, Render then to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.

²⁶And they could not take hold of his words before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

²⁷Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to him, and asked him,

²⁸saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, “If a man's brother die, having a wife, and the same die without children, his brother shall take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.”