Luke 19:11-21:38

^19:11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately. ¹² He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. ¹³ He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’ ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

¹⁵ “It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. ¹⁶ The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’

¹⁷ “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant. Because you were faithful with very little, you will have authority over ten cities.’

¹⁸ “The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’

¹⁹ “So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ ²⁰ Another came, saying, ‘Lord, look, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, ²¹ for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you did not lay down, and reap that which you did not sow.’

²² “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I did not lay down, and reaping that which I did not sow. ²³ Then why did you not deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’ ²⁴ He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’

²⁵ “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas.’ ²⁶ ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who does not have, even that which he has will be taken away. ²⁷ But bring those enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'” ²⁸ Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

²⁹ It happened, when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of the talmidim, ³⁰ saying, “Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no one ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. ³¹ If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘Because the Lord needs it.'”

³² Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. ³³ As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” ³⁴ They said, “Because the Lord needs it.” ³⁵ They brought it to Yeshua. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Yeshua on them. ³⁶ As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. ³⁷ As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the talmidim began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, ³⁸ saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.”

³⁹ Some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your talmidim.”

⁴⁰ He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

⁴¹ When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things that make for peace. But now, they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³ For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, ⁴⁴ and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁵ And he entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in it, ⁴⁶ saying to them, “It is written, ‘And my house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’.”

⁴⁷ He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief cohanim and the scribes and the leaders among the people sought to destroy him. ⁴⁸ They could not find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.

^20:1 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the Good News, that the chief cohanim and scribes came to him with the elders. ² They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

³ He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me: ⁴ the immersion of John, was it from heaven, or from man?”

⁵ They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ ⁶ But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.” ⁷ They answered that they did not know where it was from.

⁸ Yeshua said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

⁹ He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went on a journey for a long time. ¹⁰ At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. ¹¹ He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. ¹² He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. ¹³ The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What am I to do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that they will respect him.’

¹⁴ “But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’ ¹⁵ They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.”

When they heard it, they said, “May it never be.”

¹⁷ But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written,

‘The stone which the builders rejected,
the same was made the chief cornerstone?’
¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces;
but on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”

¹⁹ The chief cohanim and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. ²⁰ They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. ²¹ They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and are not partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 22 ^Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

²³ But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, ²⁴ “Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”

They answered, “Caesar’s.”

²⁵ He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

²⁶ They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. And amazed at his answer, they fell silent. ²⁷ Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. ²⁸ They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. ²⁹ There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. ³⁰ The second and ³¹ the third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. ³² Afterward the woman also died. ³³ Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife.”

³⁴ Yeshua said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given to someone to marry. ³⁵ But those who are regarded as worthy of a place in that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given to someone to marry. ³⁶ For they cannot die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. ³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ ³⁸ Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”

³⁹ Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.” ⁴⁰ They did not dare to ask him any more questions.

⁴¹ He said to them, “Why do they say that the Messiah is David’s son? 42 David himself says in the scroll of Psalms,

‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
⁴³ until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.”‘

⁴⁴ “David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”

⁴⁵ In the hearing of all the people, he said to his talmidim, ⁴⁶ “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; ⁴⁷ who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

^21:1 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. ² He saw a certain poor widow casting in two lepta. ³ He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, ⁴ for all these put in gifts from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

⁵ As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, ⁶ “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”

⁷ They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”

⁸ He said, “Watch out that you do not get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Therefore do not follow them. ⁹ When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”

¹⁰ Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹ There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. ¹² But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. ¹³ It will turn out as a testimony for you. ¹⁴ Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, ¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. ¹⁶ You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. ¹⁷ You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. ¹⁸ And not a hair of your head will perish.

¹⁹ “By your endurance you will win your lives.

²⁰ “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. ²¹ Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter it. ²² For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. ²³ Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. ²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by non-Jewish people until the times are fulfilled. And there will be times of the non-Jewish people.  ²⁵ And there will be signs in the sun, and moon, and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves; ²⁶ people will be fainting from fear, and from expectation of the things which are coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ²⁸ But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

²⁹ He told them a parable. “See the fig tree, and all the trees. ³⁰ When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. ³¹ Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. ³² Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. ³³ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

³⁴ “So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. ³⁵ For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. ³⁶ Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

³⁷ Every day Yeshua was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. ³⁸ All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.