Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, MarkWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Mark
Weymouth, Richard Francis
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012:008 "So they took him and killed him, and flung his body
outside the vineyard.
012:009 What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do?"
"He will come and put the vine-dressers to death," they said;
"and will give the vineyard to others."
012:010 "Have you not read even this passage," He added, "'The stone
which the builders rejected has become the Cornerstone:
012:011 this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful
in our esteem?'"
012:012 And they kept looking out for an opportunity to seize Him,
but were afraid of the people; for they saw that in this parable
He had referred to *them*. So they left Him and went away.
012:013 Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees
and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.
012:014 So they came to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you
are a truthful man and you do not fear any one; for you do
not recognize human distinctions, but teach God's way truly.
Is it allowable to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?
012:015 Shall we pay, or shall we refuse to pay?" But He,
knowing their hypocrisy, replied, "Why try to ensnare me?
Bring me a shilling for me to look at."
012:016 They brought one; and He asked them, "Whose is this likeness
and this inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied.
012:017 "What is Caesar's," replied Jesus, "pay to Caesar--and what is God's,
pay to God." And they wondered exceedingly at Him.
012:018 Then came to Him a party of Sadducees, a sect which denies that
there is any Resurrection; and they proceeded to question Him.
012:019 "Rabbi," they said, "Moses made it a law for us:
'If a man's brother should die and leave a wife, but no child,
the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family
for his brother.'
012:020 There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom married a wife,
but at his death left no family.
012:021 The second married her, and died, leaving no family;
and the third did the same.
012:022 And so did the rest of the seven, all dying childless.
Finally the woman also died.
012:023 At the Resurrection whose wife will she be? For they all
seven married her."
012:024 "Is not this the cause of your error," replied Jesus--"your
ignorance alike of the Scriptures and of the power of God?
012:025 For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry
and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels
are in Heaven.
012:026 But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never
read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush,
how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob?'
012:027 He is not the God of dead, but of living men.
You are in grave error."
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