Section XXXIV.
1 167 Then went the Pharisees and considered how they might ensnare him in a word, and deliver him into the power of the judge, and into the power of the ruler. 2 169 And they sent unto him their disciples, with the kinsfolk of Herod; and they said unto him, Teacher, we know that thou speakest the truth, and teachest the way of God with equity, and art not lifted up by any man: for thou actest not so as to be seen of any man. 3 172 Tell us now, What is thy opinion? Is it lawful that we should pay the tribute to Caesar, or not? shall we give, or shall we not give? 4 173 But Jesus knew their deceit, and said unto them, 5 174 Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the penny of the tribute. 6 175 So they brought unto him a penny. Jesus said unto them, To whom belongeth this image and inscription? They said unto him, To Caesar. 7 176 He said unto them, Give what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. 8 177 And they could not make him slip in a single word before the people; and they marvelled at his word, and refrained.
9 178 And on that day came the Sadducees, and said unto him, There is no life for the dead. 10 180 And they asked him, and said unto him, Teacher, Moses said unto us, If a man die, not having children, let his brother take his wife, and raise up seed for his brother. 11 181 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children; 12 182 and the second took his wife, and died without children; 13 183 and the third also took her; and in like manner the seven of them also, and they died without leaving children. 14 184 And last of them all the woman died also. 15 185 At the resurrection, then, which of these seven shall have this woman? for all of them took her. 16 186 Jesus answered and said unto them, Is it not for this that ye have erred, because ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God? 17 187 And the sons of this world take wives, and the women become the men's; 18 189 but those that have become worthy of that world, and the resurrection from among the dead, do not take wives, and the women also do not become the men's. 19 192 Nor is it possible that they should die; but they are like the angels, and are the children of God, because they have become the children of the resurrection. 20 194 For in the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how from the bush God said unto him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 21 196 And God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all of them are alive with him. And ye have erred greatly.
22 197 And when the multitudes heard, they were wondering at his teaching. 23 198 And some of the scribes answered and said unto him, Teacher, thou hast well said. 24 199 But the rest of the Pharisees, when they saw his silencing the Sadducees on this point, gathered against him to contend with him.
25 200 And one of the scribes, of those that knew the law, when he saw the excellence of his answer to them, desired to try him, and said unto him, 26 201 What shall I do to inherit eternal life? and, Which of the commandments is greater, and has precedence in the law? 27 202 Jesus said unto him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one: 28 203 and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy thought, and with all thy strength. 29 204 This is the great and preëminent commandment. 30 206 And the second, which is like it, is, Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. And another commandment greater than these two there is not. 31 207 On these two commandments, then, are hung the law and the prophets. 32 208 That scribe said unto him, Excellent! my Master; thou hast said truly that he is one, and there is no other outside of him: 33 210 and that a man should love him with all his heart, and with all his thought, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and that he should love his neighbour as himself, is better than all savours and sacrifices. 34 211 And Jesus saw him that he had answered wisely; and he answered and said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. 35 212 Thou hast: spoken rightly: do this, and thou shalt live. 36 213 And he, as his desire was to justify himself, said unto him, And who is my neighbour? 37 214 Jesus said unto him, A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and the robbers fell upon him, and stripped him, and beat him, his life remaining in him but little, and went away. 38 217 And it happened that there came down a certain priest that way; and he saw him, and passed by. 39 218 And likewise a Levite also came and reached that place, and saw him, and passed by. 40 219 And a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to the place where he was, and saw him, and had compassion on him, and came near, and bound up his strokes, and poured on them wine and oil; 41 222 and he set him on the ass, and brought him to the inn, and expended his care upon him. 42 224 And on the morrow of that day he took out two pence, and gave them to the innkeeper, and said unto him, Care for him; and if thou spendest upon him more, when I return, I shall give thee. 43 225 Who of these three now, thinkest thou, is nearest to him that fell among the robbers? 44 226 And he said unto him, He that had compassion on him. 45 227 Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou also likewise. And no man dared afterwards to ask him anything.
46 228 And he was teaching every day in the temple. But the chief priests and scribes and the eiders of the people sought to destroy him: and they could not find what they should do with him; 47 230 and all the people were hanging upon him to hear him. 48 231 And many of the multitude believed on him, and said, The Messiah, when he cometh, can it be that he will do more than these signs that this man doeth? 49 232 And the Pharisees heard the multitudes say that of him; and the chief priests sent officers to seize him. 50 234 And Jesus said unto them, I am with you but a short time yet, and I go to him that sent me. 51 235 And ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I shall be, ye shall not be able to come. 52 236 The Jews said within themselves, Whither hath this man determined to go that we shall not be able to find him? can it be that he is determined to go to the regions of the nations, and teach the heathen? 53 239 What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come?