Luke 20

1On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.Cross-references: 1Chr 24:1 · Matt 21:23 · Matt 26:55 · Mark 11:27 · Luke 8:1 · Luke 19:47 · +3 more

2They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”Cross-references: Ex 2:14 · Matt 21:23 · Mark 11:28 · Luke 19:35 · Luke 19:45 · John 2:18 · +5 more

3He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:Cross-references: Matt 15:2 · Luke 22:68 · Col 4:6

4the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”Cross-references: Dan 4:25 · Matt 11:7 · Matt 17:11 · Matt 21:25 · Luke 7:28 · Luke 15:18 · +2 more

5They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’Cross-references: John 1:15 · John 1:30 · John 1:34 · John 3:26 · John 3:36 · John 5:33 · +1 more

6But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”Cross-references: Matt 11:9 · Matt 14:5 · Matt 21:26 · Matt 21:46 · Matt 26:5 · Mark 12:12 · +4 more

7They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.Cross-references: Isa 6:9 · Isa 26:11 · Isa 29:9 · Isa 29:14 · Isa 41:28 · Isa 42:19 · +10 more

8Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”Cross-references: Job 5:12 · Prov 26:4 · Matt 15:14 · Matt 16:4 · Matt 21:27 · Mark 11:33 · +1 more

9He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.Cross-references: Deut 1:15 · Deut 16:18 · Deut 17:8 · Ps 80:8 · Song 8:11 · Isa 5:1 · +7 more

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.Cross-references: Judg 6:8 · 1Ki 22:24 · 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 16:10 · 2Chr 24:19 · 2Chr 36:15 · +23 more

11He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.Cross-references: Hos 10:1 · Matt 23:30 · Acts 7:52 · 1Thess 2:2 · Heb 11:36

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

13The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’Cross-references: Isa 5:4 · Jer 36:3 · Jer 36:7 · Hos 6:4 · Hos 11:8 · Matt 3:17 · +8 more

14“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’Cross-references: Gen 37:18 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 89:27 · Matt 2:2 · Matt 16:7 · +11 more

15Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?Cross-references: Matt 21:37 · Mark 12:6 · Heb 13:12

16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”Cross-references: Neh 9:36 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 21:8 · Matt 21:41 · Matt 22:7 · Luke 19:27 · +1 more

17But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?Cross-references: Ps 118:22 · Isa 28:16 · Zech 3:9 · Matt 21:42 · Mark 3:5 · Mark 10:23 · +8 more

18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”Cross-references: Isa 8:14 · Dan 2:34 · Dan 2:44 · Zech 12:3 · Matt 21:34 · Matt 21:44 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Matt 21:45 · Matt 26:3 · Mark 12:12 · Luke 19:47 · 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 14:2 · 1Ki 14:2 · Ps 37:32 · Ps 38:12 · Ps 66:3 · Ps 81:15 · +12 more

21They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.Cross-references: 2Chr 19:7 · Job 34:19 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 55:21 · Jer 42:2 · Matt 22:16 · +8 more

22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”Cross-references: Deut 17:15 · Ezra 4:13 · Ezra 4:19 · Ezra 9:7 · Neh 5:4 · Neh 9:37 · +4 more

23But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me?Cross-references: Ps 95:9 · Matt 16:1 · Matt 22:18 · Luke 5:22 · Luke 6:8 · Luke 11:16 · +6 more

24Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”Cross-references: Matt 18:28 · Matt 20:2 · Luke 2:1 · Luke 3:1 · Luke 20:22 · Luke 23:2 · +4 more

25He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”Cross-references: Prov 24:21 · Matt 17:27 · Matt 22:21 · Mark 12:17 · Acts 4:19 · Acts 5:29 · +4 more

26They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.Cross-references: Job 5:12 · Prov 26:4 · Matt 22:12 · Matt 22:22 · Matt 22:34 · Luke 13:17 · +5 more

27Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.Cross-references: Matt 16:1 · Matt 16:6 · Matt 16:12 · Matt 22:23 · Mark 12:18 · Acts 4:1 · +4 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 38:8 · Gen 38:11 · Gen 38:26 · Deut 25:5 · Ruth 1:11

29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.Cross-references: Lev 20:20 · Jer 22:30

30The second took her as wife, and he died childless.

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

32Afterward the woman also died.Cross-references: Judg 2:10 · Eccl 1:4 · Eccl 9:5 · Heb 9:27

33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”Cross-references: Matt 22:24 · Mark 12:19

34Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage.Cross-references: Luke 16:8 · Luke 17:27 · 1Cor 7:2 · Eph 5:31 · Heb 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.Cross-references: Dan 12:2 · Matt 12:32 · Matt 22:29 · Mark 12:24 · Luke 21:36 · John 5:29 · +5 more

36For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.Cross-references: Isa 25:8 · Hos 13:14 · Zech 3:7 · Matt 22:30 · Mark 12:25 · Rom 8:17 · +13 more

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.’Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Gen 28:13 · Gen 28:21 · Gen 32:9 · Ex 3:2 · Ex 3:15 · +4 more

38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”Cross-references: Ps 16:5 · Ps 22:23 · Ps 145:1 · John 6:57 · John 11:25 · John 14:19 · +9 more

39Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”Cross-references: Matt 22:34 · Mark 12:28 · Acts 23:9

40They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.Cross-references: Prov 26:5 · Matt 22:46 · Mark 12:34

41He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?Cross-references: Isa 9:6 · Isa 11:1 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 33:15 · Jer 33:21 · Matt 1:1 · +7 more

42David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,Cross-references: 2Sam 23:1 · Ps 110:1 · Matt 22:43 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 24:44 · Acts 1:20 · +5 more

43until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 72:9 · Ps 109:4 · Ps 110:1 · Ps 110:5 · +2 more

44“David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”Cross-references: Isa 7:14 · Matt 1:23 · Luke 1:31 · Luke 2:11 · Rom 9:5 · Gal 4:4 · +2 more

45In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,Cross-references: Matt 15:10 · Matt 23:1 · Matt 23:5 · Mark 8:34 · Mark 12:38 · 1Tim 5:20

46“Beware of those 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;Cross-references: Prov 29:23 · Matt 16:6 · Matt 23:5 · Mark 8:15 · Mark 12:38 · Luke 11:43 · +6 more

47who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”Cross-references: Isa 10:2 · Jer 7:6 · Ezek 22:7 · Ezek 33:31 · Amos 2:7 · Amos 8:4 · +14 more