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Mark - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
- And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
- And they took him, and gave him blows, and sent him away with nothing.
- And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.
- And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.
- He still had one, a dearly loved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
- But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours.
- And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.
- What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.
- Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:
- This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
- And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.
- Then they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and the Herodians, so that they might make use of his words to take him by a trick.
- And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?
- Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.
- And they gave him one. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? And they said to him, Caesar's.
- And Jesus said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. And they were full of wonder at him.
- And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,
- Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.
- There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;
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