1It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the Good News, that the chief priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

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Matthew 21:23, Matthew 21:27, Matthew 21:23, Matthew 21:27, 1 Chronicles 24:1

2They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

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John 2:18, Acts 7:27, Mark 11:28, Mark 11:33, Matthew 21:23

3He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

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Matthew 15:2, Matthew 15:3, Luke 22:68, Colossians 4:6, Matthew 15:2

4the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from man?"

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Luke 15:18, Matthew 11:7, Matthew 11:19, Luke 15:18, Matthew 11:7

5They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

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John 1:15, John 1:18, John 1:34, John 1:30, Acts 13:25

6But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

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Matthew 21:26, Matthew 21:26, Matthew 11:9, Matthew 11:9, Matthew 14:5

7They answered that they did not know where it was from.

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Isaiah 42:19, Isaiah 42:20, Zechariah 11:15, Isaiah 44:18, Zechariah 11:17

8Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things."

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Mark 11:33, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 16:4, Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:5

9He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

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Matthew 21:33, Matthew 21:46, Matthew 21:33, Matthew 21:46, Mark 12:1

10At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

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Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:26, 2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Matthew 21:34

11He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

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Hosea 10:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:2, Matthew 23:30, Matthew 23:37, Acts 7:52

12He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out.

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13The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him.'

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Matthew 3:17, Matthew 3:17, John 3:16, John 3:17, John 3:16

14"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

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Romans 8:17, Romans 8:17, Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 1:2, Matthew 27:21

15They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

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Hebrews 13:12, Hebrews 13:12, Matthew 21:37, Matthew 21:40, Mark 12:6

16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

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Luke 19:27, Luke 19:27, Matthew 21:41, Acts 13:46, Matthew 21:41

17But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

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Psalms 118:22, Psalms 118:22, Isaiah 28:16, Isaiah 28:16, Acts 4:11

18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

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Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 8:15, Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 8:15, Daniel 2:44

19The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people-for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

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Luke 19:47, Luke 19:48, Luke 19:47, Luke 19:48, Luke 20:14

20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

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Luke 11:54, Luke 11:54, Matthew 22:15, Matthew 22:22, Matthew 22:15

21They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

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Matthew 26:49, Matthew 26:50, 1 Thessalonians 2:4, 1 Thessalonians 2:5, Matthew 22:16

22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

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Nehemiah 9:37, Nehemiah 9:37, Ezra 4:19, Ezra 4:22, Nehemiah 5:4

23But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,

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1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 3:19, Matthew 22:18, Luke 11:16, Luke 11:17

24"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."

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Matthew 18:28, Matthew 18:28, Luke 20:22, Acts 25:8, Acts 25:12

25He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

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Romans 13:6, Romans 13:7, Romans 13:6, Romans 13:7, Acts 4:19

26They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.

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Luke 20:20, Luke 20:20, Job 5:12, Job 5:13, 2 Timothy 3:8

27Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

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Acts 4:1, Acts 4:2, Acts 4:1, Acts 4:2, 1 Corinthians 15:12

28They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

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Deuteronomy 25:5, Deuteronomy 25:10, Deuteronomy 25:5, Deuteronomy 25:10, Genesis 38:8

29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

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Jeremiah 22:30, Leviticus 20:20, Jeremiah 22:30, Leviticus 20:20

30The second and

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31the third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died.

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32Afterward the woman also died.

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Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 1:4, Ecclesiastes 9:5, Ecclesiastes 1:4, Hebrews 9:27

33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

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Matthew 22:24, Matthew 22:28, Matthew 22:24, Matthew 22:28, Mark 12:19

34Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

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Luke 16:8, Luke 16:8, Luke 17:27, Luke 17:27, Hebrews 13:4

35But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

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2 Thessalonians 1:5, 2 Thessalonians 1:5, Daniel 12:2, Daniel 12:3, John 5:29

36For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

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Philippians 3:21, Revelation 21:4, Philippians 3:21, Revelation 21:4, Matthew 22:30

37But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

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Exodus 3:2, Exodus 3:6, Exodus 3:2, Exodus 3:6, Mark 12:26

38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him."

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John 11:25, John 11:26, John 11:25, John 11:26, Colossians 3:3

39Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."

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Mark 12:28, Mark 12:34, Matthew 22:34, Matthew 22:40, Acts 23:9

40They did not dare to ask him any more questions.

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Matthew 22:46, Matthew 22:46, Mark 12:34, Mark 12:34, Proverbs 26:5

41He said to them, "Why do they say that the Messiah is David's son?

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Mark 12:35, Mark 12:37, Mark 12:35, Mark 12:37, Matthew 1:1

42David himself says in the scroll of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand,

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Psalms 110:1, Psalms 110:1, Acts 2:34, Acts 2:35, Acts 2:34

43until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'

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Psalms 110:1, Luke 19:27, Psalms 110:1, Luke 19:27, Revelation 19:14

44"David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"

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Revelation 22:16, Revelation 22:16, Romans 9:5, Galatians 4:4, Isaiah 7:14

45In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

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Mark 12:38, Mark 12:39, Matthew 23:5, Matthew 23:7, Mark 8:34

46"Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

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Mark 12:38, Mark 12:39, Luke 11:43, Mark 12:38, Mark 12:39

47who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."

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Mark 12:40, Mark 12:40, James 3:1, James 3:1, Luke 12:1