Following Jesus: Luke 20:41-47 and 21:1-6

The Question about the Messiah
20:41 Then he said to them, “How can they say that the Messiah is the son of David? 42 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms:

The Lord declared to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand

43 until I make your enemies your footstool.’ [Ps 110:1]

44 David calls him ‘Lord.’ How, then, can he be his son?”

Warning against the Scribes
45 While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets. 47 They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

The Widow’s Gift
21:1 He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.[Lit two lepta; the lepton was the smallest and least valuable Gk coin in use.] 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

Destruction of the Temple Predicted
5 As some were talking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, 6 “These things that you see—the days will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be thrown down.”

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Following Jesus: Luke 20:27-40

The Sadducees and the Resurrection
20:27 Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him: 28 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother has a wife, and dies childless, his brother should take the wife and produce offspring for his brother.[Dt 25:5] 29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died without children. 30 Also the second[Other mss add took her as wife, and he died without children] 31 and the third took her. In the same way, all seven died and left no children. 32 Finally, the woman died too. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

34 Jesus told them, “The children of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are counted worthy to take part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 For they can no longer die, because they are like angels and are children of God, since they are children of the resurrection. 37 Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.[Ex 3:6,15] 38 He is not the God of the dead but of the living, because all are living to him.”

39 Some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.” 40 And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

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