Luke 20:5-27

⁵And they thought within them-selves, saying, For if we say, Of heaven, he shall say, Why then believe ye not to him?

⁶and if we say, Of men, all the people shall stone us; for they be certain, that John is a prophet.

⁷And they answered, that they knew not, of whence it was.

⁸And Jesus said to them, Neither I say to you, in what power I do these things.

⁹And he began to say to the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard, and hired it to tillers; and he was gone in pilgrimage long time.

¹⁰And in the time of gathering of grapes, he sent a servant to the tillers, that they should give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; which beat him, and let him go void.

¹¹And he thought yet to send another servant; and also they beat this, and tormented him sore, and let him go void.

¹²And he thought yet to send the third, and him also they wounded, and casted him out.

¹³And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I shall send my dearworthy son; peradventure, when they see him, they shall dread or they shall be ashamed.

¹⁴And when the tillers saw him, they thought within themselves, and said, This is the heir, slay we him, that the heritage be ours.

¹⁵And they casted him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What shall then the lord of the vineyard do to them?

¹⁶He shall come, and destroy these tillers, and give the vineyard to others. And when this thing was heard, they said to him, God forbid.

¹⁷But he beheld them, and said, What then is this that is written, The stone which men building reproved, this is made into the head of the corner?

¹⁸Each that shall fall on that stone, shall be bruised or be broken, but on whom it shall fall, it shall all-break him or it shall break him into small parts.

¹⁹And the princes of priests, and the scribes, sought to lay on him hands or to lay hands on him in that hour, and they dreaded the people; for they knew that to them he said this likeness.

²⁰And they espied, and sent spies, that feigned themselves just, that they should take him in word, and betake him to the power of the prince, and to the power of the justice.

²¹And they asked him, and said, Master, we know, that rightly thou sayest and teachest or that thou sayest and teachest rightly; and thou takest not the person of man, but thou teachest in truth the way of God.

²²Is it leaveful to us to give tribute to the emperor or to Caesar, or nay?

²³And he beheld the deceit of them, and said to them, What tempt ye me?

²⁴Show ye to me a penny; whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and said to him, The emperor’s or Caesar’s.

²⁵And he said to them, Yield ye therefore to the emperor those things that be the emperor’s or to Caesar those things that be Caesar’s, and those things that be of God, to God.

²⁶And they might not reprove his word before the people; and they wondered in his answer, and held peace.

²⁷Some of the Sadducees, that denied the again-rising from death to life or the resurrection, came, and asked him.