Mark 12
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1And he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. 2And at the proper time he sent a servant to the tenant farmers, so that he might receive from the tenant farmers some of the fruits of the vineyard. 3And taking him, they beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4And again he sent to them another servant; and that one they stoned, struck on the head, and sent away dishonored. 5And again he sent another; and that one they killed, and many others, beating some and killing some. 6Therefore, still having one, his beloved son, he sent him also to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 7But those tenant farmers said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 8And taking him, they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. 9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. 10Have you not read this very Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; 11this was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'? 12And they sought to seize him, but they feared the crowd, for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. And leaving him, they went away. 13And they send to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, so that they might catch him in a word. 14And coming, they say to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and you do not care what anyone thinks; for you do not look at the face of men, but in truth you teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar, or not? 15Should we give, or should we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, so that I may see it." 16And they brought it. And he says to them, "Whose is this image and the inscription?" And they said to him, "Caesar's." 17And Jesus answering said to them, "Give the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God." And they marveled greatly at him. 18And Sadducees come to him, who are of the kind who say there is no resurrection, and they were asking him, saying, 19"Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if someone's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 20There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying, he left no offspring. 21And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring himself; and the third likewise; 22and the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman also died. 23In the resurrection, therefore, when they resurrect, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife." 24And Jesus said to them, "Are you not deceived because of this, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in the heavens. 26But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to 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; you are therefore greatly deceived." 28And one of the scribes came up, having heard them debating, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which is a first commandment of all?" 29Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30and you shall love the Lord your God out of all your heart, and out of all your soul, and out of all your mind, and out of all your strength.' This is the first commandment. 31And the second is like it, this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 32And the scribe said to him, "Well said, Teacher; you have spoken in truth that he is one God, and there is no other besides him; 33and to love him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices." 34And Jesus, seeing that he answered intelligently, said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one any longer dared to question him. 35And Jesus answering said, teaching in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36For David himself said in the Holy Spirit: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a footstool for your feet."' 37David himself therefore calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" And the large crowd heard him gladly. 38And in his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk around in robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, 39and the first-seats in the synagogues, and the first-couches at the feasts; 40those devouring the houses of widows, and for a pretense making long prayers; these will receive a more severe judgment." 41And Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and he was observing how the crowd casts copper coins into the treasury. And many rich people were casting in much; 42and one poor widow came and cast in two lepta, which is a quadrans. 43And having called his disciples to him, he said to them, "Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all of those casting into the treasury; 44for they all cast in out of their abundance, but she, out of her lack, cast in all that she had, her whole livelihood."
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