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1One day, Jesus was teaching in the temple and telling the good news. So the chief priests, the teachers, and the nation's leaders
2asked him, “What right do you have to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
3Jesus replied, “I want to ask you a question.
4Who gave John the right to baptize? Was it God in heaven or merely some human being?”
5They talked this over and said to each other, “We can't say God gave John this right. Jesus will ask us why we didn't believe John.
6And we can't say it was merely some human who gave John the right to baptize. The crowd will stone us to death, because they think John was a prophet.”
7So they told Jesus, “We don't know who gave John the right to baptize.”
8Jesus replied, “Then I won't tell you who gave me the right to do what I do.”
9Jesus told the people this story:[#Is 5.1.]
Jesus asked, “What do you think the owner of the vineyard will do?
16I'll tell you what. He will come and kill those renters and let someone else have his vineyard.”
When the people heard this, they said, “This must never happen!”
17But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what do the Scriptures mean when they say, ‘The stone the builders tossed aside is now the most important stone of all’?[#Ps 118.22.]
18Anyone who stumbles over this stone will get hurt, and anyone it falls on will be smashed to pieces.”
19The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses knew that Jesus was talking about them when he was telling this story. They wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the people.
20Jesus' enemies kept watching him closely, because they wanted to hand him over to the Roman governor. So they sent some men who pretended to be good. But they were really spies trying to catch Jesus saying something wrong.
21The spies said to him, “Teacher, we know you teach the truth about what God wants people to do. And you treat everyone with the same respect, no matter who they are.
22Tell us, should we pay taxes to the Emperor or not?”
23Jesus knew they were trying to trick him. So he told them,
24“Show me a coin.” Then he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?”
“The Emperor's,” they answered.
25Then he told them, “Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God.”
26Jesus' enemies could not catch him saying anything wrong there in front of the people. They were amazed at his answer and kept quiet.
27The Sadducees did not believe that people would rise to life after death. So some of them came to Jesus[#Ac 23.8.]
28and said:[#Dt 25.5,6.]
34Jesus answered:
39Some of the teachers of the Law of Moses said, “Teacher, you have given a good answer!”
40From then on, no one dared to ask Jesus any questions.
41Jesus asked, “Why do people say that the Messiah will be the son of King David?[#20.41 See the note at 18.38.]
42In the book of Psalms, David himself says,[#Ps 110.1.]
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right side
43until I make your enemies
into a footstool for you.’
44David spoke of the Messiah as his Lord, so how can the Messiah be his son?”
45While everyone was listening to Jesus, he said to his disciples: