The Life of Jesus

He will come and put an end to those tenants and give the vineyard to others!” When the people heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”

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’?

Whoever falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but if it falls on him, he will be crushed to powder!”

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.

Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?”

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

and put to him a sh’eilah: “Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man’s family line.

Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died childless,

then the second

and third took her, and likewise all seven, but they all died without leaving children.

Lastly, the woman also died.

In the Resurrection, which one’s wife will she be? For all seven were married to her.”

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

but those judged worthy of the age to come, and of resurrection from the dead, do not get married,

because they can no longer die. Being children of the Resurrection, they are like angels; indeed, they are children of God.

“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.