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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Silver Trumpets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If only one is sounded, the leaders&#8212;the heads of the clans of Israel&#8212;are to assemble before you. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.10.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and rescued from your enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Also at your times of rejoicing&#8212;your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts&#8212;you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Israelites Leave Sinai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.10.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the covenant law. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They set out, this first time, at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.10.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The divisions of the camp of Judah went first, under their standard. Nahshon son of Amminadab was in command. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nethanel son of Zuar was over the division of the tribe of Issachar, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of Zebulun. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, set out.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.10.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The divisions of the camp of Reuben went next, under their standard. Elizur son of Shedeur was in command. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the tribe of Simeon, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. The tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.10.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The divisions of the camp of Ephraim went next, under their standard. Elishama son of Ammihud was in command. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.10.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Finally, as the rear guard for all the units, the divisions of the camp of Dan set out under their standard. Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was in command. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Pagiel son of Okran was over the division of the tribe of Asher, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of Naphtali. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.10.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, &#8220;We are setting out for the place about which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8216;I will give it to you.&#8217; Come with us and we will treat you well, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has promised good things to Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.10.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.10.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But Moses said, &#8220;Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.10.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So they set out from the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The cloud of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was over them by day when they set out from the camp.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.10.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.10.35"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.10.35"><span class="content">May your enemies be scattered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.10.35"><span class="content">may your foes flee before you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.10.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Whenever it came to rest, he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.10.36"><span class="content">&#8220;Return, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.10.36"><span class="content">to the countless thousands of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warnings Against Folly</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you have been trapped by what you said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">ensnared by the words of your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So do this, my son, to free yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">since you have fallen into your neighbor&#8217;s hands:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">Go&#8212;to the point of exhaustion&#8212;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Go and humble yourself,</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">and give your neighbor no rest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Allow no sleep to your eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">no slumber to your eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">like a bird from the snare of the fowler.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Go to the ant, you sluggard;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">consider its ways and be wise!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It has no commander,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">no overseer or ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">yet it stores its provisions in summer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">and gathers its food at harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How long will you lie there, you sluggard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">When will you get up from your sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">a little folding of the hands to rest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and poverty will come on you like a thief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">and scarcity like an armed man.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A troublemaker and a villain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">who goes about with a corrupt mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who winks maliciously with his eye,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">signals with his feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">and motions with his fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who plots evil with deceit in his heart&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">he always stirs up conflict.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">he will suddenly be destroyed&#8212;without remedy.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">There are six things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hates,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">seven that are detestable to him:</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">haughty eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">a lying tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">hands that shed innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">a heart that devises wicked schemes,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">feet that are quick to rush into evil,</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">a false witness who pours out lies</span></span></div><div class="q3"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Adultery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, keep your father&#8217;s command</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">and do not forsake your mother&#8217;s teaching.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Bind them always on your heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">fasten them around your neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When you walk, they will guide you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">when you sleep, they will watch over you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">when you awake, they will speak to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For this command is a lamp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">this teaching is a light,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">and correction and instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">are the way to life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">keeping you from your neighbor&#8217;s wife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do not lust in your heart after her beauty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">or let her captivate you with her eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">but another man&#8217;s wife preys on your very life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Can a man scoop fire into his lap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">without his clothes being burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Can a man walk on hot coals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">without his feet being scorched?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So is he who sleeps with another man&#8217;s wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">no one who touches her will go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">People do not despise a thief if he steals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">though it costs him all the wealth of his house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But a man who commits adultery has no sense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">whoever does so destroys himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Blows and disgrace are his lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">and his shame will never be wiped away.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For jealousy arouses a husband&#8217;s fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He will not accept any compensation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="content">he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Authority of Jesus Questioned</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Who gave you this authority?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.20.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I will also ask you a question. Tell me:</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">John&#8217;s baptism&#8212;was it from heaven, or of human origin?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.20.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They discussed it among themselves and said, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will ask, &#8216;Why didn&#8217;t you believe him?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But if we say, &#8216;Of human origin,&#8217; all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.20.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So they answered, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know where it was from.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.20.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Tenants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.20.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He went on to tell the people this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.20.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the owner of the vineyard said, &#8216;What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.20.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. &#8216;This is the heir,&#8217; they said. &#8216;Let&#8217;s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.20.15"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.20.16"><span class="content">When the people heard this, they said, &#8220;God forbid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.20.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus looked directly at them and asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then what is the meaning of that which is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.20.17"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.20.17"><span class="wj"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:17 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.118.22">Psalm 118:22</span> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.20.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.20.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paying Taxes to Caesar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.20.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the spies questioned him: &#8220;Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.20.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He saw through their duplicity and said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.20.24"><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.20.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s, and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.20.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Resurrection and Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.20.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses wrote for us that if a man&#8217;s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The second </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Finally, the woman died too. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Now then, at the resurrection whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.20.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.20.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.20.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and they can no longer die; for they are like the angels. They are God&#8217;s children, since they are children of the resurrection.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.20.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord &#8216;the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:37 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.3.6">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.20.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.20.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.20.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Some of the teachers of the law responded, &#8220;Well said, teacher!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.20.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">And no one dared to ask him any more questions.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.20.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.20.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why is it said that the Messiah is the son of David?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.20.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself declares in the Book of Psalms:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.20.42"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.20.42"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.20.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.20.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.20.43"><span class="wj"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:43 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.110.1">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.20.43"></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.20.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David calls him &#8216;Lord.&#8217; How then can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.20.44"></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.20.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">While all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples, </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.20.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.20.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They devour widows&#8217; houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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