Chapter 12

 

 1And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard,

and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower,

and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

 2And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive

from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

 3And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

 4And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and

wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

 5And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some,

and killing some.

 6Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them,

saying, They will reverence my son.

 7But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill

him, and the inheritance shall be ours.'

 8And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

 9What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the

husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

 10And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is

become the head of the corner:

 11This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

 12And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he

had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

 13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch

him in his words.

 14And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art

true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but

teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

 15Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto

them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

 16And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and

superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.

 17And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are

Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

 18Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they

asked him, saying,

 19Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind

him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed

unto his brother.

 20Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no

seed.

 21And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third

likewise.

 22And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

 23In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of

them? for the seven had her to wife.

 24And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know

not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

 25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in

marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

 26And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses,

how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God

of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

 27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly

err.

 28And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and

perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first

commandment of all?

 29And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel;

The Lord our God is one Lord:

 30And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and

with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

 31And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

There is none other commandment greater than these.

 32And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is

one God; and there is none other but he:

 33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all

the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more

than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

 34And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not

far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

 35And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes

that Christ is the son of David?

 36For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on

my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

 37David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the

common people heard him gladly.

 38And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in

long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

 39And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

 40Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall

receive greater damnation.

 41And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money

into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

 42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a

farthing.

 43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you,

That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the

treasury:

 44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all

that she had, even all her living.






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