Thematic Bible




Luke 20:1 (show verse)

On one of the days while he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the gospel, there came up the priest and the Scribes with the elders.

Luke 20:2 (show verse)

They spoke to him saying. "Tell us by what authority you are doing these things? Who is it that gave you this authority?"

Luke 20:3 (show verse)

"I will also ask you a question," he replied.
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Luke 20:4 (show verse)

"Was John's baptism from heaven or from man?"

Luke 20:5 (show verse)

So they reasoned among themselves. "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why did you not believe in him?'

Luke 20:6 (show verse)

"And if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they were persuaded that John was a prophet."

Luke 20:7 (show verse)

So they answered that they did not know whence it was.
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Luke 20:8 (show verse)

"Nor will I tell you," Jesus answered, "by whose authority I do these things."
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Luke 20:9 (show verse)

Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time.

Luke 20:10 (show verse)

"At harvest-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers, to ask them to give him a share of the crop; but the vine-dresser beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Luke 20:11 (show verse)

"Then he sent another slave; and him also they flogged and handled shamefully and sent him away empty-handed.

Luke 20:12 (show verse)

"Then he sent yet a third, and him to they wounded and threw him out.

Luke 20:13 (show verse)

"Then the master of the vineyard said: "'What shall I do? I will send my beloved Son; it may be that they will reverence him.'

Luke 20:14 (show verse)

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they reasoned together, saying. 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance may be ours.'

Luke 20:15 (show verse)

"So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?

Luke 20:16 (show verse)

"He will come and destroy those vine-dressers, and will give the vineyard to others."

Luke 20:17 (show verse)

He looked at them and said: "Then what does this scripture mean. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner?

Luke 20:18 (show verse)

"Every one who falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but whoever it falls upon will be scattered as dust."

Luke 20:19 (show verse)

At this the Scribes and the high priests were seeking to arrest him; only they were afraid of the people. For they perceived that he had referred to them in this parable.

Luke 20:20 (show verse)

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Luke 20:21 (show verse)

So they put a question to him saying. "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not regard any man's person, but teach the way of God honestly.

Luke 20:22 (show verse)

"Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?"

Luke 20:23 (show verse)

But he perceived their knavery and answered.

Luke 20:24 (show verse)

"Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.

Luke 20:25 (show verse)

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

Luke 20:26 (show verse)

So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

Luke 20:27 (show verse)

Next came some of the Sadducees who deny that there is resurrection, and they asked him.

Luke 20:28 (show verse)

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

Luke 20:29 (show verse)

"Now there were seven brothers. the first took a wife and died childless,

Luke 20:30 (show verse)

"and the second and third took her,

Luke 20:31 (show verse)

"and likewise all the seven, but left no children when they died.

Luke 20:32 (show verse)

"Last of all the woman died too.

Luke 20:33 (show verse)

"In the resurrection whose wife shall she be? For they all seven had her as wife."

Luke 20:34 (show verse)

"People in this world marry and are given in marriage," said Jesus,

Luke 20:35 (show verse)

"but those who are counted worthy to reach that world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Luke 20:36 (show verse)

"For indeed they cannot die any more; they are equal to the angels, and through being sons of the resurrection are sons of God.

Luke 20:37 (show verse)

"But that the dead are raised, even Moses clearly implied in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord. "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.

Luke 20:38 (show verse)

"Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living; for to him all are alive.'

Luke 20:39 (show verse)

Then some of the Scribes said, "Teacher, that was nobly said,"

Luke 20:40 (show verse)

for they no longer dared to ask him any questions.

Luke 20:41 (show verse)

"How is it," he asked them, "that they say that Christ is David's son?
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Luke 20:42 (show verse)

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,
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Luke 20:43 (show verse)

Until I make thy enemies the footstool at thy feet.

Luke 20:44 (show verse)

"David therefore himself calls him 'Lord,' and how can he be his son?"
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Luke 20:45 (show verse)

Then, in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples.

Luke 20:46 (show verse)

"Beware of the Scribes who like to walk about in long robes, and dote on salutations in the marketplaces, and on securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

Luke 20:47 (show verse)

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."