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,