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Then many spread their outer garments to carpet the road, and others leafy branches which they had cut down in the fields;

They reached Jerusalem, and entering the Temple He began to drive out the buyers and sellers, and upset the money-changers' tables and the stools of the pigeon-dealers,

This the High Priests and Scribes heard, and they began to devise means to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because of the deep impression produced on all the people by His teaching.

They came again to Jerusalem; and as He was walking in the Temple, the High Priests, Scribes and Elders came to Him

But they seized him, beat him cruelly and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent to them another servant: and as for him, they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully.

Yet a third he sent, and him they killed. And he sent many besides, and them also they ill-treated, beating some and killing others.

"So they took him and killed him, and flung his body outside the vineyard.

What, therefore, will the owner of the vineyard do?" "He will come and put the vine-dressers to death," they said; "and will give the vineyard to others."

And they kept looking out for an opportunity to seize Him, but were afraid of the people; for they saw that in this parable He had referred to *them*. So they left Him and went away.

So they came to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you are a truthful man and you do not fear any one; for you do not recognize human distinctions, but teach God's way truly. Is it allowable to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

They brought one; and He asked them, "Whose is this likeness and this inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied.

"What is Caesar's," replied Jesus, "pay to Caesar--and what is God's, pay to God." And they wondered exceedingly at Him.

Then came to Him a party of Sadducees, a sect which denies that there is any Resurrection; and they proceeded to question Him.

"Rabbi," they said, "Moses made it a law for us: `If a man's brother should die and leave a wife, but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.'

For when they have risen from among the dead, men do not marry and women are not given in marriage, but they are as angels are in Heaven.

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, `I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

Many will come assuming my name and saying, `I am He;' and they will mislead many.

But when you hear of wars and rumours of wars, do not be alarmed: come they must, but the End is not yet.

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will deliver you up to Sanhedrins; you will be brought into synagogues and cruelly beaten; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to be witnesses to them for me.