10 Have you not even read this Scripture: a‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
11This was the Lord’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12aAnd they sought to lay hands on Him, but feared the multitude, for they knew He had spoken the parable against them. So they left Him and went away.
The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?
13aThen they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words.
14 When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and1 care about no one; for You do not2 regard the person of men, but teach the away of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
15 Shall we pay, or shall we not pay?” But He, knowing their ahypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius that I may see it.”
16 So they brought it. And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
17 And Jesus answered and said to them,1“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to aGod the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at Him.
The Sadducees: What About the Resurrection?
18aThen some Sadducees, bwho say there is no resurrection, came to Him; and they asked Him, saying:
19 “Teacher, aMoses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
Against them (prov autouv). So Luke. It was a straight shot, this parable of the Rejected Stone (Mark 12:10 f.) and the longer one of the Wicked Husbandmen. There was no mistaking the application, for he had specifically explained the application (Matthew 21:43-45). The Sanhedrin were so angry that they actually started or sought to seize him, but fear of the populace now more enthusiastic for Jesus than ever held them back. They went off in disgust, but they had to listen to the Parable of the King's Son before going (Matthew 22:1-14).
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