¹Then he began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence round it and dug a vat pit and built a tower, and he put it under hired labour with farmers and went abroad. ²And in due course he sent a servant to the farmers, in order to receive some vineyard fruit from the farmers. ³But they took him and flogged him and sent him off empty-handed. ⁴Then he sent another servant to them. But they stoned that one and beat him on the head and sent him off having been shamefully treated. ⁵Then he sent another one. But they killed that one, and many others, flogging some and killing others. ⁶Well then, still having his one son, his beloved, he also sent him last of all to them, and he said, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷But those farmers said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come on, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸So they took him and killed him and disposed of him outside the vineyard. ⁹What, then, will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰And have you not read this scripture: ¹²And they looked for a way to seize him, but they feared the crowd. For they knew that he had levelled the parable at them. So they left him and departed. ¹³Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him to trap him in his speech. ¹⁴So they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not concern yourself about anyone, for you do not regard the outward appearance of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to give census-tax to Caesar or not? ¹⁵Are we to give it or not to give it?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a denary to see.” ¹⁶So they brought one. Then he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.” ¹⁷Then Jesus replied and said to them, “Give the things of Caesar to Caesar and the things of God to God.” And they were amazed at him. ¹⁸Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and questioned him and said, ¹⁹“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone's brother dies, and he leaves a wife, but he does not leave children, that his brother is to take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.’ ²⁰Let's say there were seven brothers. And the first took a wife, and he died and did not leave seed. ²¹Then the second took her, and he died, and neither did he leave seed. And likewise the third. ²²And the seven took her but did not leave seed. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.” ²⁴Then Jesus replied and said to them, “You are in error in this, aren't you, because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God. ²⁵For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels in the heavens. ²⁶And concerning the dead – the fact that they are raised – have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage about the bush, when God spoke to him and said, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ²⁷He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. So you are badly in error.” ²⁸Then one of the scribes who had come up and heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “What is the first commandment of all?” ²⁹And Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is, ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.’ ³⁰And, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹And the second is similar – this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” ³²Then the scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You have spoken truly in that, ‘He is one and there is no other apart from him.’ ³³And, ‘To love him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your soul and with all your strength, and to love one's neighbour as oneself is greater than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.’ ” ³⁴Then when Jesus saw that he had answered astutely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” Then no-one dared question him any more. ³⁵And Jesus answered them and said, when teaching in the temple, “How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? ³⁶For David himself said by holy spirit, ³⁷David himself, therefore, calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” Now the common people were listening to him with pleasure. ³⁸And he said to them in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes who enjoy walking around in robes, and greetings in the markets, ³⁹and the privileged seats in the synagogues, and the privileged couches at dinners, ⁴⁰who devour widows' houses and for show say long prayers. These will receive a more serious judgment.” ⁴¹Then Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the crowd put copper money into the treasury. And many rich people were putting in a lot, ⁴²but one poor widow put in two leptons, which is a quadrans. ⁴³Then he called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Truly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than anyone of those who contribute to the treasury. ⁴⁴For everyone contributed from their surplus, but this woman from her paucity put in everything she had – her whole livelihood.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.10 ↔ Psalm 118:22 ● v.11 ↔ Psalm 118:23 ● v.19 ↔ Deuteronomy 25:5 ● v.26 ↔ Exodus 3:6 ● v.29 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:4 ● v.30 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5 ● v.31 ↔ Leviticus 19:18 ● v.32 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:4, 2 Samuel 22:32, Isaiah 45:5, Psalm 18:32^MT (Psalm 18:31^AV) ● v.33 ↔ Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18, 1 Samuel 15:22, Isaiah 1:11 ● v.36 ↔ Psalm 110:1.