And it was on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders rose up against him,

and they say to him, Tell us, by what authority you do these things? And who is he that gave you this authority?

Y'shua answered and said to them, I also will ask you a word, and tell me.

The immersion of Yochanan, was it from heaven, or from the sons of men?

But they were reasoning in themselves and saying, If we say, From heaven, he will say to us, And why did you not believe him?

But if we say, From the sons of men, all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that Yochanan is a prophet.

And they said to him, We do not know from where it is.

Y'shua said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

And he began to say this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard and leased it to laborers and went abroad for a long time.

And in time he sent his servant to the laborers, that they might give him of the fruit of the vineyard. But the laborers beat him and sent him away empty.

And again he sent another servant; but they also beat him and treated him with shame and sent him away empty.

And again he sent a third; but they also wounded him and cast him out.

The master of the vineyard said, What will I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will see him and be ashamed.

But when the cultivators saw him, they were reasoning in themselves and saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.

And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the master of the vineyard do to them?

He will come and destroy those cultivators, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, This will not be.

But he looked at them and said, And what is this that is written: The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner?

And everyone who falls on that stone will be broken, and everyone on whom it falls, it will crush him.

But the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to lay hands on him at that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spoke this parable.

And they sent spies to him who pretended to be righteous, that they might catch him in a word and deliver him to the judgment and to the authority of the governor.

And they asked him and said to him, Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and you do not take faces, but in truth you teach the way of Elohim.

Is it lawful for us to give head-money to Caesar, or not?

But he perceived their craftiness and said, Why are you testing me?

Show me a denarius. Whose image and writing is on it? And they said, Caesar's.

Y'shua said to them, Give therefore what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is Elohim's to Elohim.

And they could not catch a word from him of accusation before the people, and they marveled at his answer, and were silent.

Then some of the Zaduqaye came near, those who say there is no rising, and they asked him,

and said to him, Teacher, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies who has a wife and he has no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed for his brother.

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children.

And the second took her as wife, and this one died without children.

And the third again took her, and likewise also all seven of them, and they died and left no children.

And at the last the woman also died.

In the resurrection, then, of which of them will she be the wife? For the seven took her.

Y'shua said to them, The children of this world take wives, and wives become to husbands.

But those who are worthy of that world and of the resurrection from among the dead do not take wives, and wives do not become to husbands.

For they cannot die any more; for they are like the messengers, and they are children of Elohim, because they are children of the resurrection.

But that the dead rise, even Moshe showed; for at the bush he made mention when he said: Master YHWH, the Elohim of Avraham and the Elohim of Yitz'chak and the Elohim of Ya'akov.

Now Elohim is not the Elohim of the dead, but of the living; for they all live to him.

And some of the scribes answered and said to him: Teacher, you have spoken well.

And they did not again dare to question him about anything.

And he was saying to them: How do the scribes say of the Mashiyach that he is the son of Dawid?

And Dawid himself said in the book of Psalms: Master YHWH said to my Master, Sit at my right hand,

until I place your enemies under your feet.

If therefore Dawid called him my Master, how is he his son?

And while all the people were hearing, he said to his disciples:

Beware of the scribes who choose to walk in robes and love greetings in the marketplace and the chief seats in the synagogues and the chief couches at banquets,

who eat up the houses of widows under the pretext that they lengthen their prayers. These will receive a greater judgment.