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871  l   Mark 12:36
7 “But the ten­ants said to one an­oth­er,
‘This is the heir. Come, ­let’s kill him, and
the in­her­i­tance will be ours.’ 8 So they took
him and ­killed him, and ­threw him out of
the vine­yard.
9 “ What then will the own­
e r of the
vine­yard do? He will come and kill t ­ hose
ten­ants and give the vine­yard to oth­ers.
10 Haven’t you read this pas­sage of Scrip­
ture:

“ ‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
11 the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our
eyes’  a  ?”
12 Then the c ­ hief p
­ riests, the teach­ers of
the law and the el­ders ­looked for a way to
ar­rest him be­cause they knew he had spo­
ken the par­a­ble ­against them. But they
were a
­ fraid of the ­crowd; so they left him
and went away.
the ­third. 22 In fact, none of the sev­en left
any chil­dren. Last of all, the wom­an died
too. 23   At the res­ur­rec­tion  c ­whose wife will
she be, ­since the sev­en were mar­ried to
her?”
24 ­Jesus re­plied, “Are you not in er­ror be­
cause you do not know the Scrip­tures or
the pow­er of God? 25 When the dead rise,
they will nei­ther mar­ry nor be giv­en in
mar­riage; they will be like the an­gels in
heav­en. 26 Now a
­ bout the dead ris­ing — ​
have you not read in the Book of Mo­ses, in
the ac­count of the burn­ing bush, how God
said to him, ‘I am the God of Abra­ham, the
God of ­Isaac, and the God of Ja­cob’  d  ? 27 He
is not the God of the dead, but of the liv­ing.
You are bad­ly mis­tak­en!”
The Greatest Commandment
13 Lat­er they sent some of the Phar­i­sees
and He­ro­di­ans to ­Jesus to ­catch him in
his ­words. 14 They came to him and said,
“Teach­er, we know that you are a man of
in­teg­ri­ty. You ­aren’t ­swayed by oth­ers, be­
cause you pay no at­ten­tion to who they
are; but you t ­ each the way of God in ac­cor­
dance with the ­truth. Is it ­right to pay the
im­pe­ri­al tax  b to Cae­sar or not? 15 Should we
pay or ­shouldn’t we?”
But ­Jesus knew ­their hy­poc­ri­sy. “Why
are you try­ing to trap me?” he ­asked.
“Bring me a de­nar­i­us and let me look at
it.” 16 They ­brought the coin, and he ­asked
them, “Whose im­age is this? And ­whose in­
scrip­tion?”
“Cae­sar’s,” they re­plied.
17 Then ­Jesus said to them, “Give back to
Cae­sar what is Cae­sar’s and to God what is
God’s.”
And they were ­amazed at him. 28 One of the teach­ers of the law came
and ­heard them de­bat­ing. No­tic­ing that
Jesus had giv­en them a good an­swer, he
asked him, “Of all the com­mand­ments,
which is the most im­por­tant?”
29 “The most im­por­tant one,” an­swered
Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Is­ra­el: The Lord our
God, the Lord is one.  e 30 Love the Lord your
God with all your ­heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind and with all
your ­strength.’  f 31 The sec­ond is this: ‘Love
your neigh­bor as your­self.’  g ­There is no
com­mand­ment great­er than these.”
32 “Well said, teach­er,” the man re­plied.
“You are ­right in say­ing that God is one and
there is no oth­er but him. 33 To love him
with all your ­heart, with all your un­der­
stand­ing and with all your s ­ trength, and
to love your neigh­bor as your­self is more
im­por­tant than all ­burnt of­fer­ings and sac­
ri­fic­es.”
34 When ­Jesus saw that he had an­swered
wise­ly, he said to him, “You are not far
from the king­dom of God.” And from then
on no one ­dared ask him any more ques­
tions.
Marriage at the Resurrection Whose Son Is the Messiah?
18 Then the Sad­du­cees, who say t ­ here
is no res­ur­rec­tion, came to him with a
ques­tion. 19 “Teach­er,” they said, “Mo­ses
wrote for us that if a ­man’s broth­er dies
and ­leaves a wife but no chil­dren, the man
must mar­ry the wid­ow and r ­ aise up off­
spring for his broth­er. 20   Now ­there were
sev­en broth­ers. The ­first one mar­ried and
died with­out leav­ing any chil­dren. 21 The
sec­ond one mar­ried the wid­ow, but he also
died, leav­ing no ­child. It was the same with 35 While ­Jesus was teach­ing in the tem­
ple c ­ ourts, he ­asked, “Why do the teach­ers
of the law say that the Mes­si­ah is the son
of Da­vid? 36 Da­vid him­self, speak­ing by the
Holy Spir­it, de­clared:
Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar
a  11 Psalm
118:22,23    b  14  A special tax levied
on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens   
c  23  Some manuscripts resurrection, when people
rise from the dead,    d  26 Exodus 3:6    e  29 Or
The Lord our God is one Lord    f  30 Deut. 6:4,5   
g  31 Lev. 19:18