Jesus

Then Yeshua entered the Temple grounds and began driving out those doing business there,

Every day he taught at the Temple. The head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the leaders of the people tried to find a way of putting an end to him;

but they couldn’t find any way of doing it, because all the people were hanging onto his every word.

One day, as Yeshua was teaching the people at the Temple, making known the Good News, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers, along with the elders, came up to him

and said, “Tell us, what s’mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? Who gave you this s’mikhah?”

He answered, “I too will ask you a question. Tell me,

They discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From Heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

Yeshua said to them, “Then I won’t tell you by what s’mikhah I do these things.”

Next Yeshua told the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant-farmers and went away for a long time.

But Yeshua looked searchingly at them and said, “Then what is this which is written in the Tanakh, ‘The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

The Torah-teachers and the head cohanim would have seized him at that very moment, because they knew that he had aimed this parable at them, but they were afraid of the people.

So they kept a close watch on the situation. They sent spies who hypocritically represented themselves as righteous, so that they might seize hold of something Yeshua said, as an excuse to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

They put to him this sh’eilah: “Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God’s way is.

But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them,

“Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?” “The Emperor’s,” they replied.

“Then,” he said to them, “give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!”

They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.

Some Tz’dukim, who say there is no resurrection, came to Yeshua

Yeshua said to them, “In this age, men and women marry;

“But even Moshe showed that the dead are raised; for in the passage about the bush, he calls Adonai ‘the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov.’

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living — to him all are alive.”

Some of the Torah-teachers answered, “Well spoken, Rabbi.”

For they no longer dared put to him a sh’eilah.

But he said to them, “How is it that people say the Messiah is David’s son?”

For David himself says in the book of Psalms,