Mark 12
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And he began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge
about it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen,
and went into another country.
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And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from
the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.
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And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
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And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and handled
shamefully.
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And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating some, and killing
some.
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He had yet one, a beloved son: he sent him last to them, saying, They will reverence
my son.
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But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him,
and the inheritance shall be ours.
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And they took him, and killed him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard.
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What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen,
and will give the vineyard to others.
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Have you not read even this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected, The
same was made the head of the corner;
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This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes?
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And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived
that he spoke the parable against them: and they left him, and went away.
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And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might
catch him in talk.
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And when they were come, they say to him, Teacher, we know that you are true, and
care not for any one; for you regard not the person of men, but of a truth teach the
way of God: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
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Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them,
Why make you trial of me? bring me a denarius, that I may see it.
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And they brought it. And he says to them, Whose is this image and superscription?
And they said to him, Caesar`s.
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And Jesus said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar`s, and to God
the things that are God`s. And they marveled greatly at him.
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And there come to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked
him, saying,
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Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If a man`s brother die, and leave a wife behind him, and
leave no child, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.
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There were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed;
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and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third likewise:
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and the seven left no seed. Last of all the woman also died.
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In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
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Jesus said to them, Is it not for this cause that you err, that you know not the scriptures,
nor the power of God?
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For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage;
but are as angels in heaven.
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But as touching the dead, that they are raised; have you not read in the book of Moses,
in [the place concerning] the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I [am] the God of
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
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He is not the God of the dead, but of the living: you do greatly err.
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And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that
he had answered them well, asked him, What commandment is the first of all?
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Jesus answered, The first is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one:
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and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
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The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is none other
commandment greater than these.
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And the scribe said to him, Of a truth, Teacher, you have well said that he is one;
and there is none other but he:
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and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the
strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings
and sacrifices.
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And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said to him, You are not far from
the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
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And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that
the Christ is the son of David?
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David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit you on my right
hand, Till I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.
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David himself calls" him Lord; and whence is he his son? And the common people heard
him gladly.
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And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes,
and [to have] salutations in the marketplaces,
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and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:
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they that devour widows` houses, and for a pretense make long prayers; these shall
receive greater condemnation.
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And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money
into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
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And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.
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And he called to him his disciples, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor
widow cast in more than all they that are casting into the treasury:
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for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all
that she had, [even] all her living.