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Text -- Luke 20:1-43 (NET)
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The Authority of Jesus
20:1 Now one day , as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel , the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up
20:2 and said to him , “Tell us : By what authority are you doing these things ? Or who it is who gave you this authority ?”
20:3 He answered answered them , “I will also ask you a question , and you tell me :
20:4 John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people ?”
20:5 So they discussed it with one another , saying , “If we say , ‘From heaven ,’ he will say , ‘Why did you not believe him ?’
20:6 But if we say , ‘From people ,’ all the people will stone us , because they are convinced that John was a prophet .”
20:7 So they replied that they did not know where it came from.
20:8 Then Jesus said to them , “Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things .”
The Parable of the Tenants
20:9 Then he began to tell the people this parable : “A man planted a vineyard , leased it to tenant farmers , and went on a journey for a long time .
20:10 When harvest time came , he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop . However , the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed .
20:11 So he sent another slave . They beat this one too , treated him outrageously , and sent him away empty-handed .
20:12 So he sent still a third . They even wounded this one , and threw him out .
20:13 Then the owner of the vineyard said , ‘What should I do ? I will send my one dear son ; perhaps they will respect him.’
20:14 But when the tenants saw him , they said to one another , ‘This is the heir ; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours !’
20:15 So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them ?
20:16 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others .” When the people heard this, they said , “May this never happen !”
20:17 But Jesus looked straight at them and said , “Then what is the meaning of that which is written : ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ’?
20:18 Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces , and the one on whom it falls will be crushed .”
20:19 Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour , because they realized he had told this parable against them . But they were afraid of the people .
Paying Taxes to Caesar
20:20 Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere . They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor .
20:21 Thus they asked him , “Teacher , we know that you speak and teach correctly , and show no partiality , but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth .
20:22 Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not ?”
20:23 But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them ,
20:24 “Show me a denarius . Whose image and inscription are on it?” They said , “Caesar’s .”
20:25 So he said to them , “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s , and to God the things that are God’s .”
20:26 Thus they were unable unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words . And stunned by his answer , they fell silent .
Marriage and the Resurrection
20:27 Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection ) came to him .
20:28 They asked him, “Teacher , Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children , that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother .
20:29 Now there were seven brothers . The first one married a woman and died without children .
20:30 The second
20:31 and then the third married her , and in this same way all seven died , leaving no children .
20:32 Finally the woman died too .
20:33 In the resurrection , therefore , whose wife will the woman be ? For all seven had married her .”
20:34 So Jesus said to them , “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage .
20:35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage .
20:36 In fact, they can no longer die , because they are equal to angels and are sons of God , since they are sons of the resurrection .
20:37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush , where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob .
20:38 Now he is not God of the dead , but of the living , for all live before him .”
20:39 Then some of the experts in the law answered , “Teacher , you have spoken well !”
20:40 For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything .
The Messiah: David’s Son and Lord
20:41 But he said to them , “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son ?
20:42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms , ‘The Lord said to my lord , “Sit at my right hand ,
20:43 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet .”’
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 1 |
JESUS CHRIST, 4E1 |
Jesus, The Christ |
Resurrection |
Instruction |
Sadducees |
Reproof |
Land |
God |
Debtor |
Capital and Labor |
Renting |
Lease |
MONEY |
Misconduct in Office |
Quotations and Allusions |
Death |
Heaven |
Law |
Citizenship |
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NET Notes -> Luk 20:1; Luk 20:1; Luk 20:1; Luk 20:1; Luk 20:1; Luk 20:1; Luk 20:2; Luk 20:2; Luk 20:2; Luk 20:3; Luk 20:4; Luk 20:4; Luk 20:4; Luk 20:5; Luk 20:7; Luk 20:7; Luk 20:8; Luk 20:8; Luk 20:8; Luk 20:9; Luk 20:9; Luk 20:9; Luk 20:9; Luk 20:10; Luk 20:10; Luk 20:10; Luk 20:10; Luk 20:10; Luk 20:11; Luk 20:11; Luk 20:12; Luk 20:13; Luk 20:13; Luk 20:13; Luk 20:15; Luk 20:15; Luk 20:16; Luk 20:16; Luk 20:16; Luk 20:16; Luk 20:17; Luk 20:17; Luk 20:17; Luk 20:18; Luk 20:18; Luk 20:18; Luk 20:19; Luk 20:19; Luk 20:19; Luk 20:19; Luk 20:20; Luk 20:20; Luk 20:20; Luk 20:20; Luk 20:21; Luk 20:21; Luk 20:21; Luk 20:22; Luk 20:22; Luk 20:22; Luk 20:23; Luk 20:23; Luk 20:24; Luk 20:24; Luk 20:24; Luk 20:24; Luk 20:24; Luk 20:25; Luk 20:25; Luk 20:26; Luk 20:26; Luk 20:26; Luk 20:26; Luk 20:27; Luk 20:27; Luk 20:28; Luk 20:28; Luk 20:28; Luk 20:28; Luk 20:28; Luk 20:29; Luk 20:30; Luk 20:33; Luk 20:33; Luk 20:34; Luk 20:34; Luk 20:35; Luk 20:35; Luk 20:36; Luk 20:36; Luk 20:36; Luk 20:37; Luk 20:37; Luk 20:37; Luk 20:38; Luk 20:38; Luk 20:39; Luk 20:39; Luk 20:39; Luk 20:40; Luk 20:41; Luk 20:41; Luk 20:41; Luk 20:41; Luk 20:42; Luk 20:43
NET Notes: Luk 20:1 The chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up. The description is similar to Luke 19:47. The leaders are really watching Jesus ...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:2 The leadership is looking back to acts like the temple cleansing (19:45-48). How could a Galilean preacher do these things?
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NET Notes: Luk 20:3 Grk “answering, he said to them.” This is redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:5 Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Jesus’ question.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:7 Very few questions could have so completely revealed the wicked intentions of the religious leaders. Jesus’ question revealed the motivation of ...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:8 On this phrase, see BDAG 844 s.v. ποῖος 2.a.γ. This is exactly the same phrase as in v. 2.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:10 The image of the tenants beating up the owner’s slave pictures the nation’s rejection of the prophets and their message.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:11 The slaves being sent empty-handed suggests that the vineyard was not producing any fruit – and thus neither was the nation of Israel.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:12 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the tenants’ mistreatment of the first t...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:15 Throwing the heir out of the vineyard pictures Jesus’ death outside of Jerusalem.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:16 May this never happen! Jesus’ audience got the point and did not want to consider a story where the nation would suffer judgment.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:17 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The use of Ps 118:22-23 and the “stone imagery” as a reference to Christ and h...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:18 This proverb basically means that the stone crushes, without regard to whether it falls on someone or someone falls on it. On the stone as a messianic...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:19 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:20 This word is often translated “authority” in other contexts, but here, in combination with ἀρχή (arch), it refers to...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:21 Teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Very few comments are as deceitful as this one; they did not really believe this at all. The questi...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:23 Or “craftiness.” The term always has negative connotations in the NT (1 Cor 3:19; 2 Cor 4:2; 11:3; Eph 4:14).
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NET Notes: Luk 20:25 Jesus’ answer to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s was a both/and, not the questioner...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:28 A quotation from Deut 25:5. Because the OT quotation does not include “a wife” as the object of the verb, it has been left as normal type....
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NET Notes: Luk 20:30 Most mss (A W Θ Ψ Ë1,13 33 Ï lat) have the words, “took the wife and this one died childless” after “the second....
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NET Notes: Luk 20:34 Grk “sons of this age” (an idiom, see L&N 11.16). The following clause which refers to being “given in marriage” suggests ...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:35 Life in the age to come is different than life here (they neither marry nor are given in marriage). This means Jesus’ questioners had made a fal...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:36 Or “people.” The noun υἱός (Juios) followed by the genitive of class or kind (“sons of…”) denotes a...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:38 On this syntax, see BDF §192. The point is that all live “to” God or “before” God.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:39 Teacher, you have spoken well! The scribes, being Pharisees, were happy for the defense of resurrection and angels, which they (unlike the Sadducees) ...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:40 The attempt to show Jesus as ignorant had left the experts silenced. At this point they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.
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NET Notes: Luk 20:41 It was a common belief in Judaism that Messiah would be David’s son in that he would come from the lineage of David. On this point the Pharisees...
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NET Notes: Luk 20:42 The Lord said to my Lord. With David being the speaker, this indicates his respect for his descendant (referred to as my Lord). Jesus was arguing, as ...
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