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¹He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

²When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

³They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

⁴Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.

⁵Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

⁶Therefore still having one, his agapetos ·beloved, esteemed· son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

⁷But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

⁸They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

⁹What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

¹⁰Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

¹¹This was from MarYah Master Yahweh, it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

¹²They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

¹³They sent some of the Pharisees Separated and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

¹⁴When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Does Torah ·Teaching· say to pay taxes to Caesar Ruler, or not?

¹⁵Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius one day’s wage, that I may see it.”

¹⁶They brought it. He said to them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” They said to him, “Caesar’s Ruler’s.”

¹⁷Yeshua Salvation answered them, “Render to Caesar Ruler the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

¹⁸There came to him Sadducees Morally-upright, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

¹⁹“Teacher, Moses Drawn out wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

²⁰There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

²¹The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;

²²and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.

²³In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife.”

²⁴Yeshua Salvation answered them, “Is not this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

²⁵For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

²⁶But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses Drawn out, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham Father of a multitude, the God of Isaac Laughter, and the God of Jacob Supplanter’?

²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

²⁸One of the Torah-Teachers came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which mitzvah ·instruction· is the most important of them all?”

²⁹Yeshua Salvation answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel God prevails, MarYah Master Yahweh our God, MarYah Master Yahweh is echad ·one unity·:

³⁰you shall have agapao ·total devotion love· to MarYah Master Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

³¹The second is like this, ‘You shall show agapao ·total devoted love· to your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other mitzvah ·instruction· greater than these.”

³²The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is echad ·one unity·, and there is none other besides him,

³³and to have agapao ·totally devoted love· to him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to show agapao ·totally devoted love· to his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

³⁴When Yeshua Salvation saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.

³⁵Yeshua Salvation responded, as he taught in the temple, “How is it that the Torah-Teachers say that the Messiah Anointed one is the son of David Beloved?

³⁶For David Beloved himself said in Ruach haKodesh Spirit of the Holiness, ‘Yahweh said to adoni my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’

³⁷Therefore David Beloved himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

³⁸In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the Torah-Teachers, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

³⁹and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:

⁴⁰those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

⁴¹Yeshua Salvation sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast brass coins into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

⁴²A poor widow came, and she cast in two small bronze coins, which equal a quadrans coin (Roman quarter coin about 3/8 of a cent).

⁴³He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

⁴⁴for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”