1And it was done in one of the days, when he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel [or evangelizing], the princes of priests, and [the] scribes came together with the elder men;

2and they said to him, Say to us, in what power thou doest these things, or who is he that gave to thee this power?

3And Jesus answered, and said to them, And I shall ask you one word; answer ye to me.

4Was the baptism of John of heaven, or of men?

5And they thought within them-selves, saying, For if we say, Of heaven, he shall say, Why then believe ye not to him?

6and if we say, Of men, all the people shall stone us; for they be certain, that John is a prophet.

7And they answered, that they knew not, of whence it was.

8And Jesus said to them, Neither I say to you, in what power I do these things.

9And he began to say to the people this parable. A man planted a vineyard, and hired it to tillers; and he was gone in pilgrimage long time.

10And in the time of gathering of grapes, he sent a servant to the tillers, that they should give to him of the fruit of the vineyard; which beat him, and let him go void.

11And he thought yet to send another servant; and [also] they beat this, and tormented him sore, and let him go void.

12And he thought yet to send the third, and him also they wounded, and casted him out.

13And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I shall send my dearworthy son; peradventure, when they see him, they shall dread [or they shall be ashamed].

14And when the tillers saw him, they thought within themselves, and said, This is the heir, slay we him, that the heritage be ours.

15And they casted him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What shall then the lord of the vineyard do to them?

16He shall come, and destroy these tillers, and give the vineyard to others. And when this thing was heard, they said to him, God forbid.

17But he beheld them, and said, What then is this that is written, The stone which men building reproved, this is made into the head of the corner?

18Each that shall fall on that stone, shall be bruised [or be broken], but on whom it shall fall, it shall all-break him [or it shall break him into small parts].

19And the princes of priests, and [the] scribes, sought to lay on him hands [or to lay hands on him] in that hour, and they dreaded the people; for they knew that to them he said this likeness.

20And they espied, and sent spies, that feigned them[selves] just, that they should take him in word, and betake him to the power of the prince, and to the power of the justice.

21And they asked him, and said, Master, we know, that rightly thou sayest and teachest [or that thou sayest and teachest rightly]; and thou takest not the person of man, but thou teachest in truth the way of God.

22Is it leaveful to us to give tribute to the emperor [or to Caesar], or nay?

23And he beheld the deceit of them, and said to them, What tempt ye me?

24Show ye to me a penny; whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and said to him, The emperor’s [or Caesar’s].

25And he said to them, Yield ye therefore to the emperor those things that be the emperor’s [or to Caesar those things that be Caesar’s], and those things that be of God, to God.

26And they might not reprove his word before the people; and they wondered in his answer, and held peace.

27Some of the Sadducees, that denied the again-rising from death to life [or the resurrection], came, and asked him.

28and said, Master, Moses wrote to us, if the brother of any man have a wife, and he be dead [or died], and he was without heirs [or free children], that his brother take his wife, and raise seed to his brother.

29And so there were seven brethren. The first took a wife, and is dead without heirs, [or without sons, or free children];

30and the brother pursuing took her [or the second took her], and he is dead without son;

31and the third took her; also and all seven, and they left not seed [or no seed], but be dead;

32and the last of all the woman is dead.

33Therefore in the rising again, whose wife of them shall she be? for seven had her to wife.

34And Jesus said to them, Sons of this world wed, and be given to weddings;

35but they that shall be had worthy of that world, and of the rising again from death, neither be wedded, nor wed wives,

36neither they shall be able to die more; for they be even with angels, and be the sons of God, since they be the sons of the rising again from death.

37And that dead men rise again, also Moses showed beside the bush, as he saith, The Lord God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.

38And God is not of dead men, but of living men; for all men live to him.

39And some of the scribes answering, said, Master, thou hast well said.

40And they durst no more ask him anything.

41But he said to them, How say men, Christ to be the son of David [or that Christ is the son of David],

42and David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right half,

43till I put thine enemies a stool of thy feet?

44Therefore David calleth him Lord, and how is he his son?

45And in hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

46Be ye ware of the scribes, that will wander in stoles, and love salutations in the chapping, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the first sitting places in [the] feasts;

47that devour the houses of widows, and feign long praying; these shall take the more damnation.