*: Matthew 21:23 Mark 11:27
1: the pharisees being overcome with the truth of Christ's doctrine,
move a question about his outward calling, and are overcome by the
witness of their own conscience.
*: Matthew 21:33
Mark 12:1 Isaiah 5:1 Jeremiah 2:21
2: It is no new thing to have them the chiefest enemies of Christ and
his servants, which are conversant in the very sanctuary of God's
holy place: but at length they shall not escape unpunished.
*: Psalms 118:22 Isaiah 28:16 Acts 4:11 Romans 9:33 1 Peter 2:8
*: Matthew 22:16
Mark 12:13
3: The last refuge that false prophets have to destroy the true
prophets, is to lay sedition and treason to their charge.
a: A fit time to take him in.
b: Whom they had deceitfully hired.
c: That they might take some hold in his talk, and thereby forge some
false accusation against him.
d: Put him to death.
e: Thou art not moved by favour of any man: and by person he meaneth
outward circumstances, which if a man have respect unto, he will not
judge alike of them that are indeed alike.
f: Craftiness is a certain diligence and wittiness to do evil, gotten
by much use and great practice in matters.
*: Romans 13:7
*: Matthew 22:23
Mark 12:18
4: The resurrection of the flesh is avouched against the
Sadducees.
*: Deuteronomy 25:5
g: They are called here in this place, the children of this world,
which live in this world: and not they, that wholly are given to the
world as before Chapter 16:8
which are contrary to the children of light.
h: That is, men partakers of the resurrection: for as we say truly
that they shall live indeed, which shall enjoy everlasting bliss, so
indeed, which rise to life, though if this word, resurrection, to be
taken generally, it belongeth also to the wicked, which shall rise to
condemnation, which is not properly life, but death.
*: Exodus 3:6
i: That is, before him: a notable saying, the godly do not die,
though they die here on earth.
*: Matthew 22:44
Mark 12:35
5: Christ is so the son of David according to the flesh, that he is
also his lord (because he is the everlasting son of God) according to
the spirit.
*: Psalm 110:1
*: Chapter 11:43 Matthew 23:6 Mark
12:38
6: We must avoid the example of the ambitious and covetous
pastors.
j: This is spoken by the figure metonymy, houses, for the goods and
substance.
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Chapter 20
4. From whence John's baptism was. 9. The wickedness of the
priests is noted by the parable of the vineyard and the husbandmen.
21. To give tribute to Cesar. 27. He convinceth the Sadducees denying
the resurrection. 41. How Christ is the son of God.
And *1 it came to pass,
that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and
preached the gospel, the high priests and the scribes came upon him
with the elders,
2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us
by what authority thou doest these things, or who is he that hath
given thee this authority?
3 And he answered, and said unto them,
I also will ask you one thing: tell me
therefore:
4 The baptism of
John, was it from heaven, or of men?
5 And they reasoned within themselves,
saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say, Why then believed
ye him not?
6 But if we shall say, Of men, all the
people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a
prophets.
7 Therefore they answered, that they
could not tell whence it was.
8 Then Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you, by what authority I do these things.
9 ¶*2 Then
began he to speak to the people this parable, A
certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen: and
went into a strange country, for a great time.
10 And at the time
convenient he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give
him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen did beat him,
and sent him away empty.
11 Again he sent
yet another servant: and they did beat him, and foul entreated him,
and sent him away empty.
12 Moreover he sent
the third, and him they wounded, and cast out.
13 Then said the
Lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be that they will do reverence,
when they see him.
14 But when the
husbandmen saw him, they reasoned with themselves, saying, This is
the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What shall the Lord of the vineyard therefore do unto them?
16 He will come and
destroy these husbandmen, and will give out his vineyard to
others. But when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
17 ¶ And he beheld them, and said,
What meaneth this then that is written, *
The stone that the builders refused, that is made
the head of the corner?
18 Whosoever shall
fall upon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoever it shall
fall it shall grind him to power.
19 Then the high priests, and the
scribes the same hour went about to lay hands on him: (but they
feared the people) for they perceived that he had spoken this parable
against them.
20 *3 And
they a watched him, and sent forth
b spies, which should fain themselves just
men, c to take him in his talk, and to
deliver him unto the power and d authority
of the governor.
21 And they asked him, saying,
Master, we know that thou sayest, and teachest aright, neither doest
thou accept e man's person, but teachest the
way of God truly.
22 Is it lawful for us to give Cesar
tribute or no?
23 But he perceived their f craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
24 Show me a penny.
Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered, and
said, Cesar's.
25 Then he said unto them, * Give then unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's, and to
God the things which are God's.
26 And they could not reprove his
saying before the people: but they marvelled at his answer, and held
their peace.
27 *4 Then
came to him certain of the Sadducees (which deny that there is any
resurrection) and they asked him,
28 Saying, Master, * Moses wrote unto
us, If any man's brother die having a wife, and he die without
children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed unto his brother.
29 Now there were seven brethren,
and the first took a wife, and he died without children.
30 And the second took the wife, and
he died childless.
31 Then the third took her: and so
likewise the seven died, and left no children.
32 And last of all the woman died
also.
33 Therefore at the resurrection,
whose wife of them shall she be? for seven had her to wife.
34 Then Jesus answered, and said unto
them, The g children of this world marry wives, and are
married.
35 But they which
shall be counted worthy to enjoy that world, and the resurrection
from the dead, neither marry wives, neither are married.
36 For they can die
no more, forasmuch as they are equal unto the angels, and are the
sons of God, since they are the h
children of the resurrection.
37 And that the
dead shall rise again, even * Moses showed
it besides the bush, when he said, The Lord is the God of Abraham, and the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
38 For he is not
the God of the dead, but of them which live: for all i live unto him.
39 Then certain of the scribes
answered, and said, Master, thou hast well said.
40 And after that, durst they not ask
him anything at all.
41 *5 Then
said he unto them, How say they that Christ is
David's son?
42 And David
himself saith in the book of the psalms, * The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
43 Till I shall
make thine enemies thy footstool.
44 Seeing David
called him Lord, how is he then his son?
45 ¶ Then in the audience of all the
people he said unto his disciples,
46 *6 Beware of the scribes, which willingly go in long robes,
and love salutations in the markets, and the highest seats in the
assemblies, and the chief rooms at feasts:
47 Which devour
widows' j houses,
and in show make long prayers: these shall receive greater
damnation.
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