Luke 20:19–31

¹⁹The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him^s immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.^t

Paying Taxes to Caesar

20:20–26pp—Mt 22:15–22; Mk 12:13–17

²⁰Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said,^u so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.^{v 21}So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.^{w 22}Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

²³He saw through their duplicity and said to them, ²⁴“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

²⁵He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s,^x and to God what is God’s.”

²⁶They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.

The Resurrection and Marriage

20:27–40pp—Mt 22:23–33; Mk 12:18–27

²⁷Some of the Sadducees,^y who say there is no resurrection,^z came to Jesus with a question. ²⁸“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 raise up offspring for his brother.^{a 29}Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. ³⁰The second ³¹and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.