15. So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
16. He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
17. Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’ ?
18. Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
19. The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.
20. Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.
21. So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
22. Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
23. He saw through their duplicity and said to them,
24. “Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.
25. He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
26. They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.
27. Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
28. “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
29. Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
30. The second
31. and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
32. Finally, the woman died too.