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1 And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon [him], 2 and spake unto him, saying, 'Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?' 3 And he answering said unto them, 'I will question you — I also — one thing, and tell me: 4 the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?' 5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying — 'If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him? 6 and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.' 7 And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was], 8 and Jesus said to them, 'Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.' 9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time, 10 and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty. 11 'And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty; 12 and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out. 13 'And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son — the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence; 14 and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours; 15 and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed [him]; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!' 17 and he, having looked upon them, said, 'What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected — this became head of a corner? 18 every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.' 19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile. 20 And, having watched [him], they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor, 21 and they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach; 22 Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?' 23 And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, 'Why me do ye tempt? 24 shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, 'Of Caesar:' 25 and he said to them, 'Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;' 26 and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent. 27 And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him, 28 saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless — that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother. 29 'There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless, 30 and the second took the wife, and he died childless, 31 and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven — they left not children, and they died; 32 and last of all died also the woman: 33 in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? — for the seven had her as wife.' 34 And Jesus answering said to them, 'The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage; 36 for neither are they able to die any more — for they are like messengers — and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again. 37 'And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; 38 and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.' 39 And certain of the scribes answering said, 'Teacher, thou didst say well;' 40 and no more durst they question him anything. 41 And he said unto them, 'How do they say the Christ to be son of David, 42 and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 43 till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool; 44 David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?' 45 And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, 46 'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers, 47 who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

Cross references (44)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Matthew 21:23–27; Luke 8:1; Acts 6:12; Luke 19:47–48; Acts 4:1
  2. 2 John 2:18; Acts 7:27; Matthew 21:23–27; Mark 11:28–33; Exodus 2:14
  3. 3 Colossians 4:6; Luke 22:68; Matthew 15:2–3
  4. 4 Matthew 11:7–19; Daniel 4:25–26; Luke 15:18; Matthew 17:11–12; John 1:19–28
  5. 5 Acts 13:25; John 1:34; John 5:33–35; John 1:30; John 3:36
  6. 6 Matthew 21:26; Matthew 11:9; Luke 1:76; Mark 12:12; John 10:41
  7. 7 Isaiah 41:28; Isaiah 42:19–20; John 3:19–20; Jeremiah 8:7–9; 2 Peter 3:3
  8. 8 Matthew 16:4; Matthew 21:27; Mark 11:33; Proverbs 26:4–5; Job 5:12–13
  9. 9 Matthew 21:33–46; Mark 12:1–12; Jeremiah 2:21; Isaiah 5:1–7; Psalm 80:8–14
  10. 10 Nehemiah 9:26; 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Nehemiah 9:30; 2 Kings 17:13; Matthew 21:34–36
  11. 11 Acts 7:52; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; Matthew 23:30–37; Hebrews 11:36–37; Hosea 10:1
  12. 13 Matthew 3:17; John 3:16–17; John 1:34; 1 John 4:9–15; John 3:35–36
  13. 14 Hebrews 1:2; Romans 8:17; Psalm 2:1–6; Matthew 27:21–25; Matthew 2:2–16
  14. 15 Hebrews 13:12; Mark 12:6–9; Matthew 21:37–40
  15. 16 Luke 19:27; Acts 13:46; Matthew 21:41; Psalm 2:8–9; Matthew 22:7
  16. 17 Psalm 118:22; Isaiah 28:16; Acts 4:11; Matthew 21:42; 1 Peter 2:7–8
  17. 18 Isaiah 8:14–15; Daniel 2:44–45; Daniel 2:34–35; Zechariah 12:3; Matthew 21:44
  18. 19 Luke 19:47–48; Matthew 26:3–4; Luke 20:14; Matthew 21:45–46; Mark 12:12
  19. 20 Luke 11:54; Matthew 22:15–22; Psalm 81:15; Jeremiah 11:19; Luke 20:26
  20. 21 1 Thessalonians 2:4–5; Matthew 22:16; Matthew 26:49–50; 2 Corinthians 2:17; Psalm 55:21
  21. 22 Nehemiah 9:37; Matthew 22:17–21; Ezra 4:19–22; Acts 5:37; Deuteronomy 17:15
  22. 23 Luke 5:22; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Matthew 22:18; 1 Corinthians 10:9; Luke 11:16–17
  23. 24 Matthew 18:28; Luke 23:2; Acts 11:28; Luke 2:1; Philippians 4:22
  24. 25 Romans 13:6–7; 1 Peter 2:13–17; Mark 12:17; Acts 5:29; Matthew 17:27
  25. 26 Luke 20:20; Matthew 22:22; Matthew 22:12; Luke 20:39–40; Luke 13:17
  26. 27 Acts 4:1–2; 1 Corinthians 15:12; Mark 12:18–27; Matthew 22:23–33; Acts 23:6–8
  27. 28 Deuteronomy 25:5–10; Genesis 38:8; Genesis 38:11; Genesis 38:26; Ruth 1:11–12
  28. 29 Jeremiah 22:30; Leviticus 20:20
  29. 32 Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Judges 2:10; Hebrews 9:27
  30. 33 Matthew 22:24–28; Mark 12:19–23
  31. 34 Luke 16:8; Hebrews 13:4; Luke 17:27; 1 Corinthians 7:2–16; Ephesians 5:31
  32. 35 2 Thessalonians 1:5; Daniel 12:2–3; John 5:29; Matthew 12:32; Acts 24:15
  33. 36 Philippians 3:21; Revelation 21:4; Matthew 22:30; 1 Corinthians 15:42; Revelation 20:6
  34. 37 Exodus 3:2–6; Mark 12:26–27; Acts 7:30–32; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 32:9
  35. 38 John 11:25–26; Colossians 3:3–4; Romans 6:10–11; John 14:19; Romans 14:7–9
  36. 39 Mark 12:28–34; Matthew 22:34–40; Acts 23:9
  37. 40 Matthew 22:46; Mark 12:34; Proverbs 26:5
  38. 41 Mark 12:35–37; Jeremiah 23:5–6; Matthew 1:1; Isaiah 11:1–2; Matthew 22:41–45
  39. 42 Psalm 110:1; Acts 2:34–35; Hebrews 1:13; Mark 12:36–37; Matthew 22:43–45
  40. 43 Luke 19:27; Psalm 110:1; Revelation 19:14–21; Psalm 110:5–6; Psalm 2:1–9
  41. 44 Revelation 22:16; Luke 2:11; Matthew 1:23; Romans 9:5; Galatians 4:4
  42. 45 1 Timothy 5:20; Matthew 15:10; Matthew 23:1–2; Matthew 23:5–7; Mark 12:38–39
  43. 46 Mark 12:38–39; Luke 11:43; Luke 14:7; Luke 12:1; Matthew 16:6
  44. 47 Mark 12:40; James 3:1; Luke 12:1; Titus 1:16; Luke 12:47–48

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 20:34 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XIV, Chapters 20–22)

    … complete this most blessed city would have been as great though no one had sinned, as it is now that the grace of God gathers its citizens out of the multitude of sinners, so long as the children of this world generate and are generated. And therefore that marriage, worthy of the happiness of Paradise, should have had desirable fruit …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 20:17 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXVIII)

    The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; and every one that falleth upon it shall be broken." But Matthew, that they themselves delivered the sentence.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 20:35 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XV, Chapters 17–19)

    But Enos means man in so restricted a sense, that Hebrew linguists tell us it cannot be applied to woman: it is the equivalent of the "child of the resurrection," when they neither marry nor are given in marriage. For there shall be no generation in that place to which regeneration shall have brought us.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 20:36 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXX)

    "For in the resurrection," saith He, "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels of God in Heaven." But Luke saith, "As Sons of God." If then they marry not, the question is vain.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 20:2–8 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter I — 6-14)

    And the Lord says to them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things." And they were confounded by means of John; and in them were the words fulfilled, "I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)