² that Sanballat and ^[a]Geshem ^(A)sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together ^[b]among the villages in the plain of ^(B)Ono.” But they ^(C)thought to do me harm.

¹² The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns;

³⁵ in Lod, Ono, and ^(A)the Valley of Craftsmen.

¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they ^[a]feared the people—for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?^(A)

^20 (B)So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might seize on His words, in order to deliver Him to the power and the authority of the governor.

²¹ Then they asked Him, saying, ^(C)“Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal favoritism, but teach the way of God in truth:

³¹ So ^(A)they come to you as people do, they ^(B)sit before you as My people, and they ^(C)hear your words, but they do not do them; ^(D)for with their mouth they show much love, but ^(E)their hearts pursue their own gain.

² Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and ^(A)struck Gedaliah the son of ^(B)Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made ^(C)governor over the land.

The Vanity of Selfish Toil

⁴ Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.