¹ 耶和华从会幕中呼叫摩西，对他说：

² 你晓谕以色列人说：你们中间若有人献供物给耶和华，要从牛群羊群中献牲畜为供物。

³ 他的供物若以牛为燔祭，就要在会幕门口献一只没有残疾的公牛，可以在耶和华面前蒙悦纳。

⁴ 他要按手在燔祭牲的头上，燔祭便蒙悦纳，为他赎罪。

⁵ 他要在耶和华面前宰公牛；亚伦子孙作祭司的，要奉上血，把血洒在会幕门口、坛的周围。

⁶ 那人要剥去燔祭牲的皮，把燔祭牲切成块子。

⁷ 祭司亚伦的子孙要把火放在坛上，把柴摆在火上。

⁸ 亚伦子孙作祭司的，要把肉块和头并脂油摆在坛上火的柴上。

⁹ 但燔祭的脏腑与腿要用水洗。祭司就要把一切全烧在坛上，当作燔祭，献与耶和华为馨香的火祭。

¹⁰ 人的供物若以绵羊或山羊为燔祭，就要献上没有残疾的公羊。

¹¹ 要把羊宰於坛的北边，在耶和华面前；亚伦子孙作祭司的，要把羊血洒在坛的周围。

¹² 要把燔祭牲切成块子，连头和脂油，祭司就要摆在坛上火的柴上；

¹³ 但脏腑与腿要用水洗，祭司就要全然奉献，烧在坛上。这是燔祭，是献与耶和华为馨香的火祭。

¹⁴ 人奉给耶和华的供物，若以鸟为燔祭，就要献斑鸠或是雏鸽为供物。

¹⁵ 祭司要把鸟拿到坛前，揪下头来，把鸟烧在坛上；鸟的血要流在坛的旁边；

¹⁶ 又要把鸟的嗉子和脏物除掉，（脏物：或作翎毛）丢在坛的东边倒灰的地方。

¹⁷ 要拿着鸟的两个翅膀，把鸟撕开，只是不可撕断；祭司要在坛上、在火的柴上焚烧。这是燔祭，是献与耶和华为馨香的火祭。

⁴ 他要牵公牛到会幕门口，在耶和华面前按手在牛的头上，把牛宰於耶和华面前。

¹ It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests 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 baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

⁵ They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

⁶ But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."

⁷ They answered that they didn't know where it was from.

⁸ Jesus 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 into another country 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 shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

¹⁴ "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's 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 it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

¹⁹ The chief priests 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 aren't 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, "Why do you test me?

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. They marveled at his answer, and were 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 took her as wife, and he died childless.

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 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

³⁵ But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

³⁶ For they can't 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, 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 didn't dare to ask him any more questions.

⁴¹ He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son?

⁴² David himself says in the book 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 disciples,

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."