1One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation's leaders
2asked him, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
3Jesus replied, “I want to ask you a question.
4Who gave John the right to baptize? Was it God in heaven or merely some human being?”
5They talked this over and said to each other, “We can't say that God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn't believe John.
6And we can't say that it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.”
7So they told Jesus, “We don't know who gave John the right to baptize.”
8Jesus replied, “Then I won't tell you who gave me the right to do what I do.”
Tenants of a vineyard(Matthew 21.33-46; Mark 12.1-12)9Jesus told the people this story:
A man once planted a vineyard and let it. Then he left the country for a long time.
10When it was time to harvest the crop, he sent a servant to ask the tenants for his share of the grapes. But they beat up the servant and sent him away without anything.
11So the owner sent another servant. The tenants also beat him up. They insulted him terribly and sent him away without a thing.
12The owner sent a third servant. He was also beaten terribly and thrown out of the vineyard.
13The owner then said to himself, “What am I going to do? I know what. I'll send my son, the one I love so much. They will surely respect him!”
14When the tenants saw the owner's son, they said to one another, “Some day he will own the vineyard. Let's kill him! Then we can have it all for ourselves.”
15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?
16I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those tenants and let someone else have his vineyard.”
When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”
17But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone that the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all’?
Teacher, Moses wrote that if a married man dies and has no children, his brother should marry the widow. Their first son would then be thought of as the son of the dead brother.
29There were once seven brothers. The first one married, but died without having any children.
30The second one married his brother's widow, and he also died without having any children.
31The same thing happened to the third one. Finally, all seven brothers married that woman and died without having any children.
32At last the woman died.
33When God raises people from death, whose wife will this woman be? All seven brothers had married her.
34Jesus answered:
The people in this world get married.
35But in the future world no one who is worthy to rise from death will either marry
36or die. They will be like the angels and will be God's children, because they have been raised to life.
37In the story about the burning bush, Moses clearly shows that people will live again. He said, “The Lord is the God worshipped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
42In the book of Psalms, David himself says,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right side
43until I make your enemies
into a footstool for you.’
44David spoke of the Messiah as his Lord, so how can the Messiah be his son?”
Jesus and the teachers of the Law of Moses(Matthew 23.1-36; Mark 12.38-40; Luke 11.37-54)45While everyone was listening to Jesus, he said to his disciples:
46Guard against the teachers of the Law of Moses! They love to walk around in long robes, and they like to be greeted in the market. They want the front seats in the meeting places and the best seats at banquets.
47But they cheat widows out of their homes and then pray long prayers just to show off. These teachers will be punished most of all.
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