Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, LukeWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Luke
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Luke
020:019 At this the Scribes and the High Priests wanted to lay hands
on Him, then and there; only they were afraid of the people.
For they saw that in this parable He had referred to them.
020:020 So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent
spies who were to act the part of good and honest men,
that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand
Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.
020:021 So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said,
"we know that you say and teach what is right and that you
make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach
God's way truly.
020:022 Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"
020:023 But He saw through their knavery and replied,
020:024 "Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does
it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
020:025 "Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--
and what is God's to God."
020:026 There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before
the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
020:027 Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there
is a Resurrection), and they asked Him,
020:028 "Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother
should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall
marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
020:029 Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife
and died childless.
020:030 The second and the third also took her;
020:031 and all seven, having done the same, left no children
when they died.
020:032 Finally the woman also died.
020:033 The woman, then--at the Resurrection--whose wife shall she
be? for they all seven married her."
020:034 "The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women
are given in marriage.
020:035 But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place
in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead,
the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.
020:036 For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels,
and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.
020:037 But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies
in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord `The God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'
020:038 He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him
are all living."
020:039 Then some of the Scribes replied, "Rabbi, you have spoken well."
020:040 From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him
with a single question.
020:041 But He asked them, "How is it they say that the Christ is
a son of David?
020:042 Why, David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "`The Lord said
to my Lord, Sit at My right hand
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