1Then Jesus began to teach them in parables. He said, “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, and dug a pit for a winepress. He built a watchtower and then leased the vineyard to vine growers. Then he went away on a journey.

2At the right time, he sent a servant to the vine growers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

3But they took him, beat him, and sent him away with nothing.

4Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.

5He sent yet another, and this one they killed. They treated many others in the same way, beating some and killing others.

6He had still one more person to send, a beloved son. He was the last one he sent to them. He said, 'They will respect my son.'

7But the vine growers said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

8They seized him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

9Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vine growers and will give the vineyard to others.

10Have you not read this scripture? 'The stone which the builders rejected
has been made the cornerstone.

11This was from the Lord,
and it is marvelous in our eyes.'”

12They sought to arrest Jesus, but they feared the crowd, for they knew that he had spoken this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

13Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him to trap him with words.

14When they came, they said to him, “Teacher, we know that you care for no one's opinion, and you do not show partiality between people. You truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or not?”

15But Jesus knew their hypocrisy and said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius so I can look at it.”

16They brought one to Jesus. He said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar's.”

17Jesus said, “Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” They marveled at him.

18Then Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If a man's brother dies and leaves a wife behind him, but no child, the man should take the brother's wife, and raise up a descendant for his brother.'

20There were seven brothers; the first took a wife and then died, leaving no children.

21Then the second took her and died, leaving no children, and the third likewise.

22The seven left no children. Last of all, the woman also died.

23In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven brothers had her as their wife.”

24Jesus said, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, because you do not know the scriptures nor the power of God?

25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.

26But concerning the dead that are raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account about the bush, how God spoke to him and said, '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 of the living. You are quite mistaken.”

28One of the scribes came and heard their discussion; he saw that Jesus answered them well. He asked him, “What commandment is the most important of all?”

29Jesus answered, “The most important is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

30You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

31The second commandment is this, 'You must love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other greater commandment than these.”

32The scribe said, “Good, Teacher! You have truly said that God is one, and that there is no other besides him.

33To love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is even more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34When Jesus saw that he had given a wise answer, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” After that, no one dared to ask Jesus any more questions.

35While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, “How is it that the scribes say the Christ is the son of David?

36David himself, in the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”'

37David himself calls him 'Lord,' so how can the Christ be David's son?” The large crowd gladly listened to him.

38In his teaching Jesus said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes and they like the greetings they receive in the marketplaces

39and they like to have the chief seats in the synagogues and chief places at feasts.

40They also devour widows' houses, and they pray long prayers for people to see. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

41Then Jesus sat down across from an offering box in the temple area; he was watching people as they dropped their money into the box. Many rich people put in large amounts of money.

42Then a poor widow came and put in two mites, worth about a penny.

43He called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them who contributed to the offering box.

44For all of them gave out of their abundance. But this widow, out of her poverty, put in all of the money which she had to live on. “