Luke 20 (NET)

Luke 20:1¹Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came upCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:23-271 Chr 24:1-31Acts 4:1Acts 6:12John 18:20Luke 19:47-48Luke 8:1Mark 11:27-33Matt 26:55

Luke 20:2²and said to him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who is it who gave you this authority?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 7:27Exod 2:14John 2:18Mark 11:28-33Matt 21:23-27Acts 4:7-10Acts 7:35-39Acts 7:51John 5:22-27Luke 19:35-40

Luke 20:3³He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 4:6Luke 22:68Matt 15:2-3

Luke 20:4⁴John’s baptism —was it from heaven or from people?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 15:18Matt 11:7-19Dan 4:25-26John 1:19-28Luke 7:28-35Matt 17:11-12Matt 21:25-32John 1:6

Luke 20:5⁵So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:25John 1:15-18John 1:30John 1:34John 3:26John 3:36John 5:33-35

Luke 20:6⁶But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:26Matt 11:9Acts 5:26John 10:41Luke 1:76Luke 7:26-29Mark 12:12Matt 14:5Matt 21:46Matt 26:5

Luke 20:7⁷So they replied that they did not know where it came from.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:32 Thess 2:10-122 Tim 3:8-9Isa 26:11Isa 29:14Isa 41:28Isa 42:19-20Isa 44:18Isa 6:9-10Jer 8:7-9

Luke 20:8⁸Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by whose authority I do these things.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 5:12-13Mark 11:33Matt 15:14Matt 16:4Matt 21:27Prov 26:4-5Luke 22:68

Luke 20:9⁹Then he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:33-46Mark 12:1-12Isa 5:1-7Jer 2:21John 15:1-8Ps 80:8-14Matt 25:14Song 8:11-121 Cor 3:6-9Deut 1:15-18

Luke 20:10¹⁰When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:15-16Neh 9:26Matt 21:34-361 Kgs 22:242 Chr 16:102 Chr 24:19-212 Kgs 17:13Jer 2:30Jer 20:2Jer 25:3-7

Luke 20:11¹¹So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:2Acts 7:52Heb 11:36-37Hos 10:1Matt 23:30-37

Luke 20:12¹²So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Luke 20:13¹³Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 3:17John 3:16-17Jer 36:3Jer 36:71 John 4:9-15Gal 4:4Hos 11:8Hos 6:4Isa 5:4John 1:34

Luke 20:14¹⁴But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:17Heb 1:2Acts 2:23Acts 3:15Gen 37:18-20John 11:47-50Luke 19:47Luke 20:19Luke 20:5Luke 22:2

Luke 20:15¹⁵So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:12Mark 12:6-9Matt 21:37-40

Luke 20:16¹⁶He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they said, “May this never happen!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:27Acts 13:46Matt 21:41Matt 22:7Neh 9:36-37Ps 2:8-9Ps 21:8-10

Luke 20:17¹⁷But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone ’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:22Isa 28:16Acts 4:11Matt 21:421 Pet 2:7-8Mark 12:10Zech 3:9John 15:25Luke 22:37Luke 22:61

Luke 20:18¹⁸Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:14-15Dan 2:34-35Dan 2:44-45Matt 21:44Zech 12:3Matt 21:341 Thess 2:16

Luke 20:19¹⁹Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:47-48Luke 20:14Mark 12:12Matt 21:45-46Matt 26:3-4

Luke 20:20²⁰Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:54Matt 22:15-22Jer 11:19Matt 27:2Ps 81:152 Pet 2:3Isa 29:20-21John 18:28-32Luke 20:26Mark 12:13-17

Luke 20:21²¹Thus they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:4-5Matt 22:16Matt 26:49-502 Cor 2:172 Chr 19:7Acts 10:34-35Gal 1:10Jer 42:2-3Job 34:19John 3:2

Luke 20:22²²Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 9:37Acts 5:37Deut 17:15Ezra 4:13Ezra 4:19-22Ezra 9:7Mark 12:14-17Matt 22:17-21Neh 5:4Matt 17:25

Luke 20:23²³But Jesus perceived their deceit and said to them,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:19Luke 5:22Matt 22:181 Cor 10:9Heb 4:13John 2:24-25Luke 11:16-17Luke 11:53-54Luke 20:20Luke 6:8

Luke 20:24²⁴“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:28Acts 11:28Acts 25:8-12Acts 26:32Luke 2:1Luke 20:22Luke 23:2Luke 3:1Matt 20:2Phil 4:22

Luke 20:25²⁵So he said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 13:6-71 Cor 10:311 Pet 2:13-17Acts 4:19-20Acts 5:29Mark 12:17Matt 17:27Matt 22:21Prov 24:211 Pet 4:11

Luke 20:26²⁶Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 20:202 Tim 3:8-9Job 5:12-13Luke 13:17Luke 20:39-40Matt 22:12Matt 22:22Matt 22:34Prov 26:4-5Rom 3:19

Luke 20:27²⁷Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:1-21 Cor 15:12Mark 12:18-27Matt 22:23-33Acts 23:6-8Acts 5:17Matt 16:12 Tim 2:17-18Matt 16:12Matt 16:6

Luke 20:28²⁸They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 25:5-10Gen 38:8Gen 38:11Gen 38:26Ruth 1:11-12

Luke 20:29²⁹Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died without children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 22:30Lev 20:20

Luke 20:30³⁰The secondCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Luke 20:31³¹and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Luke 20:32³²Finally the woman died too.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 1:4Eccl 9:5Heb 9:27Judg 2:10

Luke 20:33³³In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 22:24-28Mark 12:19-23

Luke 20:34³⁴So Jesus said to them, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 16:8Heb 13:4Luke 17:271 Cor 7:2-16Eph 5:31

Luke 20:35³⁵But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 1:5Dan 12:2-3John 5:29Matt 12:32Acts 24:15Acts 5:41Luke 21:36Heb 11:35Mark 12:24Matt 22:29

Luke 20:36³⁶In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:21Rev 21:4Matt 22:301 Cor 15:42Rev 20:61 Cor 15:261 John 3:1-2Mark 12:25Rev 22:9Rom 8:17-23

Luke 20:37³⁷But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:2-6Mark 12:26-27Acts 7:30-32Deut 33:16Exod 3:15Gen 17:7Gen 28:13Gen 28:21Gen 32:9Matt 22:3-33

Luke 20:38³⁸Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live before him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:25-26Col 3:3-4Rom 6:10-11John 14:19Rom 14:7-92 Cor 13:42 Cor 6:16Ps 145:1-2Rev 7:15-17Rom 6:22-23

Luke 20:39³⁹Then some of the experts in the law answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 23:9Mark 12:28-34Matt 22:34-40

Luke 20:40⁴⁰For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 22:46Mark 12:34Prov 26:5

Luke 20:41⁴¹But he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ is David’s son?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 12:35-37Matt 1:1Matt 22:41-45Acts 2:30Isa 11:1-2Isa 9:6-7Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16John 7:42Luke 18:38-39

Luke 20:42⁴²For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 110:1Acts 2:34-35Heb 1:13Mark 12:36-37Matt 22:43-451 Cor 15:25Luke 24:442 Sam 23:1-2Acts 1:20Acts 13:33-35

Luke 20:43⁴³until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:27Ps 110:1Rev 19:14-21Ps 110:5-6Ps 2:1-9Ps 72:9Ps 109:4-20Ps 21:8-12

Luke 20:44⁴⁴If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 22:161 Tim 3:16Gal 4:4Isa 7:14Luke 1:31-35Luke 2:11Matt 1:23Rom 9:5

Luke 20:45⁴⁵As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:20Mark 12:38-39Mark 8:34Matt 15:10Matt 23:1-2Matt 23:5-7

Luke 20:46⁴⁶“Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 12:38-39Luke 11:43Luke 14:7Luke 12:1Matt 16:6Matt 23:5-7Phil 2:3-52 Tim 4:153 John 1:9Prov 29:23

Luke 20:47⁴⁷They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 12:40Jas 3:1Luke 12:1Luke 12:47-48Titus 1:16Amos 2:7Amos 8:4-6Ezek 33:31Isa 10:2Jer 7:6-10