Luke 20:14-28

¹⁴But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. ‘Here is the heir!’ they said. ‘Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.’

¹⁵So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others.” “heaven forbid!” they exclaimed when they heard it.

¹⁷But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is the meaning of this passage? — ‘The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner-stone.’

¹⁸Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls — it will scatter him as dust.”

¹⁹After this the teachers of the Law and the chief priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.

²⁰Having watched their opportunity, they afterward sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor's jurisdiction and authority.

²¹These spies asked Jesus a question. They said, “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you do not take any account of a person's position, but teach the way of God honestly;

²²are we right in paying tribute to the Emperor or not?”

²³Seeing through their deceitfulness, Jesus said to them,

²⁴“Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”

²⁵“The Emperor's,” they said; and Jesus replied, “Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”

²⁶They could not lay hold of this answer before the people; and, in their wonder at his reply, they held their tongues.

²⁷Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this —

²⁸“Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that — ‘Should a man's married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.’