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[19:41] And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

[19:42] saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

[19:43] For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

[19:44] and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

[19:45] And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,

[19:46] saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

[19:47] And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,

[19:48] but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

[20:1] One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up

[20:2] and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”

[20:3] He answered them, “I also will ask you a question. Now tell me,

[20:4] was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”

[20:5] And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

[20:6] But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

[20:7] So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

[20:8] And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

[20:9] And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.

[20:10] When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

[20:11] And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

[20:12] And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.

[20:13] Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’

[20:14] But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’

[20:15] And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

[20:16] He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”

[20:17] But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

[20:18] Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

[20:19] The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

[20:20] So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

[20:21] So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.

[20:22] Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”

[20:23] But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,

[20:24] “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

[20:25] He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

[20:26] And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.

[20:27] There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,

[20:28] and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.

[20:29] Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.

[20:30] And the second

[20:31] and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.

[20:32] Afterward the woman also died.

[20:33] In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”

[20:34] And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

[20:35] but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,

[20:36] for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

[20:37] But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

[20:38] Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”

[20:39] Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”

[20:40] For they no longer dared to ask him any question.

[20:41] But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?

[20:42] For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

[20:43] until I make your enemies your footstool.”’

[20:44] David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”

[20:45] And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

[20:46] “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

[20:47] who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

[21:1] Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box,

[21:2] and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

[21:3] And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

[21:4] For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

[21:5] And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,

[21:6] “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

[21:7] And they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”

[21:8] And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.

[21:9] And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”