Consecration of the Priests

29 “^(A)Now this is ^[a]what you shall do to them to consecrate them to serve as priests to Me: take one bull and two rams without blemish, ² and ^(B)unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers ^[b]spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour. ³ And you shall put them in one basket, and present them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams. ⁴ Then ^(C)you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. ⁵ And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the ^(D)tunic and ^(E)the robe of the ephod, and ^(F)the ephod and ^(G)the ^[c]breastpiece, and wrap his waist with the skillfully ^(H)woven band of the ephod; ⁶ and you shall set the ^(I)turban on his head and put ^(J)the holy crown on the turban. ⁷ Then you shall take ^(K)the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and anoint him. ⁸ You shall also bring his sons and put ^(L)tunics on them. ⁹ And you shall wrap their waists with ^(M)sashes, Aaron and his sons, and fit ^[d]caps on them, and they shall have ^(N)the priesthood by a permanent statute. So you shall ^[e](O)ordain Aaron and his sons.

The Sacrifices

¹⁰ “Then you shall bring the bull in front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall ^(P)lay their hands on the head of the bull. ¹¹ And you shall slaughter the bull before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ¹² Then you shall ^(Q)take some of the blood of the bull and put it on ^(R)the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar. ¹³ And you shall ^(S)take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the ^[f]lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar. ¹⁴ But ^(T)the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

¹⁵ “^(U)You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram; ¹⁶ and you shall slaughter the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar. ¹⁷ Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them ^[g]with its pieces and ^[h]its head. ¹⁸ And you shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord: ^(V)it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

¹⁹ “Then ^(W)you shall take the ^[i]other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰ And you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the lobes of his sons’ right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet, and sprinkle the rest of the blood around on the altar. ²¹ Then you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the ^(X)anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons’ garments with him; so he and his garments shall be consecrated, as well as his sons and his sons’ garments with him.

²² “You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails and the ^[j]lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ^[k]ordination), ²³ and one loaf of bread, and ^(Y)one cake of bread mixed with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread which is set before the Lord; ²⁴ and you shall put ^[l]all these ^[m]in the ^[n]hands of Aaron and ^[o]in the ^[p]hands of his sons, and shall wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. ²⁵ Then ^(Z)you shall take them from their hands, and offer them up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering for a soothing aroma before the Lord; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.

²⁶ “Then you shall take ^(AA)the breast of Aaron’s ram of ^[q]ordination, and wave it as a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be your portion. ²⁷ You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the ^[r]contribution which was waved and which was ^[s]offered from the ram of ^[t]ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons. ²⁸ It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the sons of Israel, for it is ^[u]a contribution; and it shall be ^[v]a contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, their ^[w]contribution to the Lord.

²⁹ “^(AB)The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, ^[x]so that they may be anointed and ordained in them. ³⁰ For seven days the one of his sons who is priest in his place shall put them on when he enters the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place.

Food of the Priests

³¹ “Now you shall take the ram of ^[y]ordination and ^(AC)boil its flesh in a holy place. ³² Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the doorway of the tent of meeting. ³³ So ^(AD)they shall eat ^[z]those things by which atonement was made ^[aa]at their ordination and consecration; but a ^[ab](AE)layman shall not eat them, because they are holy. ³⁴ And ^(AF)if any of the flesh of ^[ac]ordination or any of the bread remains until morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

³⁵ “So you shall do for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; you shall ^[ad]ordain them for ^(AG)seven days. ^36 (AH)Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall ^[ae]purify the altar when you make atonement ^[af]for it, and ^(AI)you shall anoint it to consecrate it. ³⁷ For seven days you shall make atonement ^[ag]for the altar and consecrate it; then ^(AJ)the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

³⁸ “Now ^(AK)this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs each day, continuously. ³⁹ The ^(AL)one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the ^[ah]other lamb you shall offer at ^[ai]twilight; ⁴⁰ and there shall be a ^[aj]tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a ^[ak]fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb. ⁴¹ The ^[al]other lamb you shall offer at ^[am]twilight, and shall offer with it ^[an]the same grain offering and ^[ao]the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord. ⁴² It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, ^(AM)where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. ⁴³ I will meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be consecrated by My glory. ⁴⁴ I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve as priests to Me. ⁴⁵ And ^(AN)I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. ⁴⁶ And they shall know that ^(AO)I am the Lord their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

Parable of the Vine-growers

12 ^(A)And He began to speak to them in parables: “^(B)A man ^(C)planted a vineyard and put a ^[a]fence around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and leased it to ^[b]vine-growers and went on a journey. ² And at the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive his share of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers. ³ And they took him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ And again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. ⁵ And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others. ⁶ He had one more man to send, a beloved son; he sent him to them last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷ But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’ ⁸ And they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. ⁹ What will the ^[c]owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the vine-growers to death, and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Have you not even read this Scripture:

^12 (F)And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the ^[e]people, for they understood that He told the parable against them. And so ^(G)they left Him and went away.

Jesus Answers the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes

^13 (H)Then they *sent some of the Pharisees and ^(I)Herodians to Him in order to ^(J)trap Him in a statement. ¹⁴ They came and *said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and ^[f]do not care what anyone thinks; for You ^[g]are not partial to anyone, but You teach the way of God in truth. Is it ^[h]permissible to pay a ^[i]poll-tax to Caesar, or not? ¹⁵ Are we to pay, or not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a ^[j]denarius to look at.” ¹⁶ And they brought one. And He *said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.” ¹⁷ And Jesus said to them, “^(K)Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at Him.

^18 (L)Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) *came to ^[k]Jesus, and began questioning Him, saying, ¹⁹ “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that ^(M)if a man’s brother dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, his brother is to ^[l]marry the wife and raise up ^[m]children for his brother. ²⁰ There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children. ²¹ The second one ^[n]married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise; ²² and so the seven together left no children. Last of all the woman also died. ²³ In the resurrection, which one’s wife will she be? For each of the seven had her as his wife.” ²⁴ Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you do not ^[o]understand the Scriptures nor the power of God? ²⁵ For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. ²⁶ But ^[p]regarding the fact that the dead rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, ^(N)in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘^(O)I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ^27 (P)He is not the God ^[q]of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken.”

^28 (Q)One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing, and ^(R)recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the ^[r]foremost of all?” ²⁹ Jesus answered, “The ^[s]foremost is, ‘^(S)Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; ^30 (T)and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘^(U)You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” ³² And the scribe said to Him, “Well said, Teacher; You have truly stated that ^(V)He is One, and there is no other besides Him; ^33 (W)and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, ^(X)is much more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.” ³⁴ When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” ^(Y)And then, no one dared any longer to question Him.

^35 (Z)And Jesus responded and began saying, as He ^(AA)taught in the temple area, “How is it that the scribes say that the ^[t]Christ is the ^(AB)son of David? ³⁶ David himself said ^[u]in the Holy Spirit,

³⁷ David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; so in what sense is He his son?” And ^(AD)the large crowd ^[v]enjoyed listening to Him.

^38 (AE)And in His teaching He was saying: “Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like ^(AF)personal greetings in the marketplaces, ³⁹ and seats of honor in the synagogues, and places of honor at banquets, ^40 (AG)who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive all the more condemnation.”

The Widow’s Coins

^41 (AH)And Jesus sat down opposite ^(AI)the treasury, and began watching how the ^[w]people were ^(AJ)putting ^[x]money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large amounts. ⁴² And a poor widow came and put in two ^[y]lepta coins, which amount to a ^[z]quadrans. ⁴³ Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all ^[aa]the contributors to the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they all put in out of their ^[ab]surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, ^[ac]all she had ^(AK)to live on.”