On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the 1 priests and scribes came to him with the elders. Mat 21:23-27Luk 8:11Ch 24:1-31Act 4:1Act 6:12Jhn 18:20Luk 19:47-48Mat 26:55 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?” Act 7:27Exo 2:14Jhn 2:18Mat 21:23-27Mrk 11:28-33Act 4:7-10Act 7:35-39Act 7:51
He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me: Col 4:6Luk 22:68Mat 15:2-3 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?” Luk 15:18Mat 11:7-19Dan 4:25-26Jhn 1:19-28Luk 7:28-35Mat 17:11-12Mat 21:25-32Jhn 1:6
They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ Act 13:25Jhn 1:15-18Jhn 1:30Jhn 1:34Jhn 3:26Jhn 3:36Jhn 5:33-35 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” Mat 21:26Mat 11:9Act 5:26Jhn 10:41Luk 1:76Luk 7:26-29Mat 14:5Mat 21:46 They answered that they didn’t know where it was from. Isa 41:28Isa 42:19-202Pe 3:32Th 2:10-122Ti 3:8-9Isa 26:11Isa 29:14Isa 44:18
Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.” Job 5:12-13Mat 15:14Mat 16:4Mat 21:27Mrk 11:33Pro 26:4-5Luk 22:68
He began to tell the people this parable: “A 2man planted a vineyard and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. Mat 21:33-46Mrk 12:1-12Isa 5:1-7Jer 2:21Jhn 15:1-8Psa 80:8-14Mat 25:14Sng 8:11-12 At 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. 2Ch 36:15-16Neh 9:26Mat 21:34-361Ki 22:242Ch 16:102Ch 24:19-212Ki 17:13Jdg 6:8-10 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 1Th 2:2Act 7:52Heb 11:36-37Hos 10:1Mat 23:30-37 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out. The 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.’ Mat 3:17Jhn 3:16-17Jer 36:3Jer 36:7Jhn 1:341Jn 4:9-15Gal 4:4Hos 11:8
“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.’ Rom 8:17Heb 1:2Act 2:23Act 3:15Gen 37:18-20Jhn 11:47-50Luk 19:47Luk 20:19 Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? Heb 13:12Mat 21:37-40Mrk 12:6-9 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” Luk 19:27Act 13:46Mat 21:41Mat 22:7Neh 9:36-37Psa 2:8-9Psa 21:8-10
When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, Psa 118:22Isa 28:16Act 4:11Mat 21:421Pe 2:7-8Mrk 12:10Zec 3:9Jhn 15:25
‘The stone which the builders rejected
was made the chief cornerstone’? 3
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, Isa 8:14-15Dan 2:34-35Dan 2:44-45Mat 21:44Zec 12:3Mat 21:341Th 2:16
but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
The 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. Luk 19:47-48Luk 20:14Mat 21:45-46Mat 26:3-4Mrk 12:12 They 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. Luk 11:54Mat 22:15-22Jer 11:19Psa 81:152Pe 2:3Isa 29:20-21Jhn 18:28-32Luk 20:26 They 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. 1Th 2:4-5Mat 22:16Mat 26:49-502Co 2:172Ch 19:7Act 10:34-35Gal 1:10Jer 42:2-3 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” Neh 9:37Act 5:37Deu 17:15Ezr 4:13Ezr 4:19-22Ezr 9:7Mat 22:17-21Mrk 12:14-17
But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, “Why do you test me? 1Co 3:19Luk 5:22Mat 22:181Co 10:9Heb 4:13Jhn 2:24-25Luk 11:16-17Luk 11:53-54 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” Mat 18:28Act 11:28Act 25:8-12Act 26:32Luk 2:1Luk 20:22Luk 23:2Luk 3:1
They answered, “Caesar’s.”
He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Rom 13:6-71Co 10:311Pe 2:13-17Act 4:19-20Act 5:29Mat 17:27Mat 22:21Mrk 12:17
They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent. Luk 20:202Ti 3:8-9Job 5:12-13Luk 13:17Luk 20:39-40Mat 22:12Mat 22:22Mat 22:34 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. Act 4:1-21Co 15:12Mat 22:23-33Mrk 12:18-27Act 23:6-8Act 5:17Mat 16:12Ti 2:17-18 They 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. Deu 25:5-10Gen 38:8Gen 38:11Gen 38:26Rut 1:11-12 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. Jer 22:30Lev 20:20 The second took her as wife, and he died childless. The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. Afterward the woman also died. Ecc 1:4Ecc 9:5Heb 9:27Jdg 2:10 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.” Mat 22:24-28Mrk 12:19-23
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. Luk 16:8Heb 13:4Luk 17:271Co 7:2-16Eph 5:31 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 2Th 1:5Dan 12:2-3Jhn 5:29Mat 12:32Act 24:15Act 5:41Luk 21:36Heb 11:35 For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. Php 3:21Rev 21:4Mat 22:301Co 15:42Rev 20:61Co 15:261Jn 3:1-2Mrk 12:25 But 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.’ 4 Exo 3:2-6Mrk 12:26-27Act 7:30-32Deu 33:16Exo 3:15Gen 17:7Gen 28:13Gen 28:21 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.” Jhn 11:25-26Col 3:3-4Rom 6:10-11Jhn 14:19Rom 14:7-92Co 13:42Co 6:16Psa 145:1-2
Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.” Act 23:9Mat 22:34-40Mrk 12:28-34 They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions. Mat 22:46Mrk 12:34Pro 26:5
He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son? Mrk 12:35-37Mat 1:1Mat 22:41-45Act 2:30Isa 11:1-2Isa 9:6-7Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16 David himself says in the book of Psalms, Psa 110:1Act 2:34-35Heb 1:13Mrk 12:36-37Mat 22:43-451Co 15:25Luk 24:442Sa 23:1-2
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”’ 5 Luk 19:27Psa 110:1Rev 19:14-21Psa 110:5-6Psa 2:1-9Psa 72:9Psa 109:4-20Psa 21:8-12
“David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?” Rev 22:161Ti 3:16Gal 4:4Isa 7:14Luk 1:31-35Luk 2:11Mat 1:23Rom 9:5
In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, 1Ti 5:20Mat 15:10Mat 23:1-2Mat 23:5-7Mrk 12:38-39Mrk 8:34 “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; Mrk 12:38-39Luk 11:43Luk 14:7Luk 12:1Mat 16:6Mat 23:5-7Php 2:3-52Ti 4:15 who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.” Mrk 12:40Jas 3:1Luk 12:1Luk 12:47-48Tit 1:16Amo 2:7Amo 8:4-6Ezk 33:31