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"But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, ‘Master, I hid your money and kept it safe.

"‘But, master,' they said, ‘he already has ten pounds!'

"‘Yes,' the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.

But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, "Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!"

But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep.

"How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes.

He said to them, "The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

After that, he taught daily in the Temple, but the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders of the people began planning how to kill him.

But they could think of nothing, because all the people hung on every word he said.

But if we say it was merely human, the people will stone us because they are convinced John was a prophet."

At the time of the grape harvest, he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop. But the farmers attacked the servant, beat him up, and sent him back empty-handed.

So the owner sent another servant, but they also insulted him, beat him up, and sent him away empty-handed.

"But when the tenant farmers saw his son, they said to each other, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Let's kill him and get the estate for ourselves!'

The teachers of religious law and the leading priests wanted to arrest Jesus immediately because they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the people's reaction.

They posed this question: "Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man dies, leaving a wife but no children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will carry on the brother's name.

So the second brother married the widow, but he also died.

But in the age to come, those worthy of being raised from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

"But now, as to whether the dead will be raised—even Moses proved this when he wrote about the burning bush. Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, he referred to the Lord as ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has."

Some of his disciples began talking about the majestic stonework of the Temple and the memorial decorations on the walls. But Jesus said,