These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Luke 20
Brit Hadashah 47 verses
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On one of those days while He was teaching the people in the Temple and proclaiming the Good News, the High Priests came upon Him, and the Scribes,
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together with the Elders, and they asked Him, “Tell us, By what authority are you doing these things? And who is it that gave you this authority?”
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“I also will put a question to you, “He said;
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“was John’s of Heavenly or of human origin?”
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So they debated the matter with one another. “If we say ‘Heavenly,’” they argued, “he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
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And if we say, ‘human,’ the people will all stone us; for they are thoroughly convinced that was a Prophet.”
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- 7 And they answered that they did not the origin of it.
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“Nor will I tell you,” said , “by what authority I do these things.”
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- 9 Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. “There was a man,” He said, “who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.
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At vintage-time he sent a to the vine-dressers, for them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dressers beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.
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2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Matthew 21:34-36 Nehemiah 9:26 Romans 7:4 Judges 6:8-10 Luke 11:47-50 Jeremiah 35:15 Jeremiah 5:24 Jeremiah 25:3-7 Jeremiah 29:26-27 2 Chronicles 16:10 Jeremiah 26:2-6 Jeremiah 26:20-24 Zechariah 1:3-6 1 Kings 22:24 Mark 12:2-5 Jeremiah 38:4-6 Nehemiah 9:30 2 Chronicles 24:19-21 Jeremiah 20:2 2 Kings 17:13 John 15:16 Zechariah 7:9-13 Psalm 1:3 Luke 13:34 Jeremiah 37:15-16 Hosea 6:4-6 Jeremiah 2:30 Jeremiah 44:4-5 -
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Then he sent a second ; and him too they beat and ill treated and sent away empty-handed.
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- 12 Then again he sent a third; and this one also they wounded and drove away.
- 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, “’What am I to do? I will send my son—my dearly-loved son: they will probably respect him.’
- 14 “But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, “’This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
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“So they turned him out of the vineyard and murdered him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
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He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others.” “ forbid!” exclaimed the hearers.
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- 17 He looked at them and said, “What then does that mean which is written, “’The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the cornerstone’?
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Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed.”
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At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people. For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.
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- 20 So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor’s authority.
- 21 So they put a question to Him. “Rabbi,” they said, “we that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach Elohim’s way truly.
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Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?”
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- 23 But He saw through their knavery and replied,
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“Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?” “Caesar’s,” they said.
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- 25 “Pay therefore,” He replied, “what is Caesar’s to Caesar—and what is Elohim’s to .”
- 26 There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
- 27 Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there is a Resurrection)
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“Rabbi, made it a for us that if a man’s brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.
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- 30 The second and the third also took her;
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Finally the woman also died.
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The woman, then—at the Resurrection—whose wife shall she be? for they all seven married her.”
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“The men of this age,” replied , “marry, and the women are given in marriage.
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- 35 But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.
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For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of through being sons of the Resurrection.
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Matthew 22:30 Revelation 21:4 Revelation 7:9-12 1 Corinthians 15:26 Revelation 5:6-14 1 Corinthians 15:42 Mark 12:25 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 1 John 3:1-2 Romans 8:17-23 Philippians 3:21 1 Corinthians 15:52-54 Revelation 20:6 Hosea 13:14 Isaiah 25:8 1 Corinthians 15:49 Revelation 22:9 Zechariah 3:7 Revelation 22:2-5 - 37 But that the dead rise to life even clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord ‘The of , the of , and the of .’
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Then some of the Scribes replied, “Rabbi, you have spoken well.”
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From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.
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- 41 But He asked them, “How is it they say that the is a son of ?
- 42 Why, himself says in the Book of Psalms, “’The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand
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Until I have made thy foes a footstool under they feet.’
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“ himself therefore calls Him Lord, and how can He be his son?”
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Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to the disciples,
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- 46 “Beware of the Scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and to be bowed to in places of public resort and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues or at a dinner party;
- 47 who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others.”