Mark 12

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1 And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge, and dug a winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
2 I sent in due time to the husbandmen a servant - receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they caught him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
4 Again he sent to them another servant; and the stones, and wounded his head and sent him away shamefully.
5 And again he sent another and they killed; and many others then beaten, then killed.
6 Having yet therefore one son, his him, finally sent him to them, saying: They will reverence my son.
7 But the tenants said to one another: This is the heir; let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.
8 And they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.
9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? --Pridet And destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.
10 Have you not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
eleven it is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
12 And they sought to seize him, but feared the people: for they knew that he told them a parable; and left him, and departed.

13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
14 They come, they say unto him, Master! we know that thou art true, and carest for no man ever, for thou regardest not the person of men, but teach the way of God. To give tribute to Caesar, or not? whether to give or not to give us?
15 But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
16 They brought. Then saith he unto them, Whose is this image and inscription? They said unto him, Caesar's.
17 Jesus said to them: Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God. And they were astonished him.

18 Then came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, and asked him, saying:
19 Teacher! Moses wrote for us that if someone's brother dies and leaves a wife, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
20 There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and dying, left no children.
21 The second took her and died, and he left no children; and the third likewise.
22 They took it [for himself] seven and left no children. After all, the woman died.
23 So, in the resurrection, when they rise, of which of them will she be wife? For the seven had her to wife?
24 Jesus answered them: Do ye this in error, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God?
25 For when they rise from the dead, [then] will neither marry nor get married, but are as the angels in heaven.
26 And the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, I the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
27 [God] is not a God of the dead, but the God of the living. So you're quite mistaken.

28 One of the scribes heard them reasoning together, and seeing that [Jesus] had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord;
thirty And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, --vot first commandment!
31 The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. Sometimes there is no commandment greater than these.
32 The scribe said to him: Well, Master! You said the truth, that there is one God and there is none else besides Him;
33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all the understanding, and with all thy soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. After no one dared to ask him.

35 Taught in the temple, Jesus said, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?
36 For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
37 David himself calls him Lord; and whence is he his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and [to take] salutations in the marketplaces,
39 seats in the synagogues, and recline on the first [place] at feasts -
40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers, receive greater damnation.

41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury. Many rich cast in much.
42 There came a certain poor widow put in two mites, which make a farthing.
43 He called unto him his disciples, [Jesus] said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow has put in more than all men casting into the treasury,
44 For all they did cast in of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, even all her living.

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