1 En op een van die dae, terwyl Hy besig was om die volk in die tempel te leer en die evangelie te verkondig, kom die owerpriesters en die skrifgeleerdes saam met die ouderlinge by Hom staan,
2 en hulle spreek met Hom en sê: Vertel ons deur watter gesag U hierdie dinge doen, of wie dit is wat U hierdie gesag gegee het?
3 En Hy antwoord en sê vir hulle: Ek sal julle ook een ding vra -- sê vir My:
4 die doop van Johannes, was dit uit die hemel of uit mense?
5 Toe het hulle onder mekaar geredeneer en gesê: As ons sê: Uit die hemel -- sal Hy sê: Waarom het julle hom dan nie geglo nie?
6 En as ons sê: Uit mense sal die hele volk ons stenig, want hulle is daarvan oortuig dat Johannes 'n profeet is.
7 Toe antwoord hulle dat hulle nie weet waarvandaan nie.
8 En Jesus sê vir hulle: Dan vertel Ek julle ook nie deur watter gesag Ek hierdie dinge doen nie.
9 Toe begin Hy aan die volk hierdie gelykenis te vertel: 'n Sekere man het 'n wingerd geplant en dit aan landbouers verhuur en vir 'n geruime tyd op reis gegaan.
10 En op die regte tyd het hy 'n dienskneg na die landbouers gestuur, dat hulle hom van die vrug van die wingerd sou gee. Maar die landbouers het hom geslaan en met leë hande weggestuur.
11 En hy het weer 'n ander dienskneg gestuur, en hulle het hom ook geslaan en skandelik behandel en met leë hande weggestuur.
12 En hy het weer 'n derde gestuur, en hulle het ook hierdie een gewond en uitgedryf.
13 Toe sê die eienaar van die wingerd: Wat sal ek doen? Ek sal my geliefde seun stuur; miskien sal hulle ontsag hê as hulle hom sien.
14 Maar toe die landbouers hom sien, het hulle onder mekaar geredeneer en gesê: Dit is die erfgenaam; kom laat ons hom doodmaak, sodat die erfdeel ons s'n kan wees.
15 En hulle het hom uit die wingerd gewerp en hom doodgemaak. Wat sal die eienaar van die wingerd dan aan hulle doen?
16 Hy sal kom en daardie landbouers ombring en die wingerd aan ander gee. En toe hulle dit hoor, sê hulle: Nee, stellig nie!
17 Maar Hy het hulle aangekyk en gesê: Wat beteken dan hierdie Skrifwoord: die steen wat die bouers verwerp het, dit het 'n hoeksteen geword?
18 Elkeen wat op die steen val, sal verpletter word; maar elkeen op wie hy val, die sal hy vermorsel.
19 Toe probeer die owerpriesters en die skrifgeleerdes in daardie selfde uur om die hande aan Hom te slaan, maar hulle het die volk gevrees; want hulle het geweet dat Hy hierdie gelykenis met die oog op hulle self uitgespreek het.
20 En hulle het Hom in die oog gehou en spioene gestuur wat geveins het dat hulle regverdig was, sodat hulle Hom op 'n woord kon betrap, om Hom oor te lewer aan die owerheid en aan die gesag van die goewerneur.
21 En hulle het Hom gevra en gesê: Meester, ons weet dat U reguit praat en leer en die persoon nie aanneem nie, maar die weg van God in waarheid leer --
22 is dit ons geoorloof om aan die keiser belasting te betaal of nie?
23 Maar Hy het hulle listigheid bemerk en vir hulle gesê: Waarom versoek julle My?
24 Wys My 'n penning. Wie se beeld en opskrif het dit? Hulle antwoord en sê: Die keiser s'n.
25 Toe sê Hy vir hulle: Betaal dan aan die keiser wat die keiser toekom, en aan God wat God toekom.
26 En hulle kon Hom nie voor die volk op 'n woord betrap nie, en verwonderd oor sy antwoord het hulle geswyg.
27 En sommige van die Sadduseërs het gekom -- hulle wat ontken dat daar 'n opstanding is -- en Hom gevra
28 en gesê: Meester, Moses het ons voorgeskrywe: As iemand se getroude broer sterwe en hy sterf sonder kinders, dan moet sy broer die vrou neem en vir sy broer kinders verwek.
29 Nou was daar sewe broers, en die eerste het 'n vrou geneem en kinderloos gesterwe.
30 En die tweede het die vrou geneem, en hy het ook kinderloos gesterwe.
31 En die derde het haar geneem; en net so al sewe. En hulle het geen kinders nagelaat nie en het gesterwe.
32 En ten laaste het die vrou ook gesterwe.
33 In die opstanding dan, wie van hulle se vrou sal sy wees? want al sewe het haar as vrou gehad.
34 Toe antwoord Jesus en sê vir hulle: Die kinders van hierdie eeu trou en word in die huwelik uitgegee;
35 maar die wat waardig geag word om daardie eeu en die opstanding uit die dode te verkry, trou nie en word nie in die huwelik uitgegee nie.
36 Want hulle kan ook nie meer sterwe nie, want hulle is soos die engele en is kinders van God, omdat hulle kinders van die opstanding is.
37 En dat die dode opgewek word, het Moses ook in die gedeelte oor die doringbos aangedui, waar hy die Here noem die God van Abraham en die God van Isak en die God van Jakob.
38 Hy is tog nie 'n God van dooies nie, maar van lewendes, want almal leef vir Hom.
39 En sommige van die skrifgeleerdes antwoord en sê: Meester, U het goed gespreek.
40 En hulle het Hom nie meer iets durf vra nie.
41 Toe sê Hy vir hulle: Hoe is dit dat hulle sê dat die Christus die seun van Dawid is?
42 En Dawid self sê in die boek van die Psalms: Die Here het tot my Here gespreek: Sit aan my regterhand
43 totdat Ek u vyande gemaak het 'n voetbank van u voete.
44 Dawid noem Hom dan Here, en hoe is Hy sy seun?
45 En terwyl die hele volk luister, sê Hy vir sy dissipels:
46 Pas op vir die skrifgeleerdes wat graag in lang klere rondloop en van die begroetinge op die markte hou en van die voorste banke in die sinagoges en die voorste plekke by die maaltye.
47 Hulle eet die huise van die weduwees op en doen vir die skyn lang gebede. Hulle sal 'n swaarder oordeel ontvang.
1 And it came about on one of those days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the good news,
2 That the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people came to him and said, Make clear to us by what authority you do these things and who gave you this authority.
3 And in answer he said to them, I will put a question to you, and do you give me an answer:
4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?
5 And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?
6 But if we say, Of men; we will be stoned by the people, for they are certain that John was a prophet.
7 And they made answer that they had no idea where it came from.
8 And Jesus said, And I will not make clear to you by what authority I do these things.
9 And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.
10 And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.
11 And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing.
12 And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out.
13 And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.
14 But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.
15 And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?
16 He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.
17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
18 Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.
19 And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.
20 And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.
21 And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:
22 Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?
23 But he saw through their trick and said to them,
24 Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.
25 And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
26 And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.
27 And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,
28 Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.
29 Now there were seven brothers, and the first had a wife and came to his end, having no children;
30 And the second;
31 And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.
32 And last of all, the woman came to her end.
33 When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.
34 And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;
35 But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;
36 And death has no more power over them, for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being of those who will come back from the dead.
37 But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38 Now he is not the God of the dead but of the living: for all men are living to him.
39 And some of the scribes, in answer to this, said, Master, you have said well.
40 And they had fear of putting any more questions to him.
41 And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?
42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Take your seat at my right hand,
43 Till I put under your feet all those who are against you.
44 David then gives him the name of Lord, so how is it possible for him to be his son?
45 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,
46 Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;
47 Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.