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|The [[Parables|parable]] of a certain man Who planted a vineyard, is similar to  what we read in [[Matthew 21]]:33-46. Comp. [[Luke 20]]:9-19.
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|  The idea of setting an ''hedge'' is most likely a ''wall'' which is establishing a [[capitalist]] property right.
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| He also digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower. This shows there was a considerable investment which was turned over to a husbandman.<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref>
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| The husbandman is the stewart holding dominion of a trust for the owner. <Br>A long chain of abuses occurs against the owner's representative and eventually they attempt to steaĺ the inheritance<Ref name="kleronomia">{{2872}}</Ref> from the father by killing the son.
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| We may see the idea to [[put to death]] the rightful heir as a  way to inherit what was the [[Fathers]] but that often produces the consequences of what is called the [[Wrath]] of God. The kingdom of God is from [[Generation to generation|generation to generations]].
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| '''A test of [[faith]] in the "[[Love]]" of God is a willingness to [[sacrifice]].''' Being a [[believer]] is both knowing and being like [[Christ]] to even die for that [[faith]] seeking to save others in real ways. Christ came to show us [[the way]] of [[righteousness]] which would include a [[daily ministration]] of rightly dividing the [[daily bread|free bread]] of [[charity]] from house to house through the practice of [[pure religion]].
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| '''The [[early Christians]] would be [[put to death]]''' for not signing up at the public [[temples]] for the [[free bread]] of [[Rome]] just as the [[Pharisees]] sought to [[put to death]] this [[Christ]] who offered a system of [[Corban]] that was an alternative to that which had been offered by [[Herod]] and the [[Pharisees]] which was "making the word of God to none effect". '''Understanding the [[Christian conflict]]''' is important.
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| [[John the Baptist]] and the [[Apostle|apostles]] of Jesus had been baptizing the people into that different system of [[charity]] that did not rely on [[force]]d contributions and the [[covetous practices]] nor [[legal charity]] of [[public religion]]. This would be at the heart of the [[Christian conflict]] with [[Rome]] and the persecution of the [[early Church]].
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| V12 and 13 reveals that they knew Jesus spoke of them and their [[apostasy]].
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| V14 Is it lawful to give [[tribute]] to [[Caesar]], or not?
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| V15-16 This image and superscription was a form idolatry according to the doctrines of the Pharisees. 
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| '''Why did they owe Caesar?'''
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|  The truth was '''they owed the [[tribute]]''' because they had  made [[Contracts, Covenants, and Constitutions|contracts and covenants]] with [[Caesar]], and had and were taking his [[dainties]] and were now therefore [[snare|snared]]. 
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| They had not only been '''''[[slothful]]'' in [[the way]] of the [[Father]] in heaven''' but had taken up with the [[fathers]] of the earth. They were not only eating at their [[tables]] but had instituted their own system of [[Corban]] which was entangling them in a [[yoke of bondage]].  And yet they were blind to their own [[folly]]. V25 They did not understand the resurrection.
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| '''The [[modern Christians]] with their own blind guides''' are doing much the same today with their own [[covetous practices]], their [[Contracts, Covenants, and Constitutions]], and desire for the [[reward of unrighteousness]]. But they are blind because they too sit in [[darkness]]. They fail to [[repent]] and find their comfort in their own [[imagination]] and the [[doctrines of men]].
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| If people are not loving their neighbor then they are not keeping the Primary command. Jesus points this out as we see him speak of the [[widow]].
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| '''Oppression and affliction'''<Br>"20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.<Ref name="charam">{{02763}}</Ref>21 Thou shalt neither vex<Ref name="yanah">{{03238}}</Ref> a stranger, nor [[oppress]]<Ref name="lachats">{{03905}}</Ref><Ref name="notoppress">{{notoppress}}</Ref> him: for ye were strangers in the land of [[Egypt]]. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;  And my [[wrath]] shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be [[widow|widows]], and your children fatherless." [[Exodus 22]]:22 - 24
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| '''Governing mankind and his mind or soul'''<Ref>"[[Augustus Caesar|Augustus]] was sensible that mankind is governed by [[name]]s; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the [[senate]] and people would [[employ|submit to slavery]], provided they were [[legal charity|respectfully]] assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom.  A feeble senate and enervated people cheerfully acquiesced in the pleasing illusion, as long as it was supported by the virtue, or even by the prudence, of the successors of [[Augustus Caesar|Augustus]]. It was a motive of self-preservation, not a principle of liberty, that animated the conspirators against [[Caligula]], [[Nero]], and [[Domitian]]. They attacked the person of the tyrant, without aiming their blow at the authority of the emperor. "Gibbon's ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', Chapter 3 The [[Constitution]] In The Age Of The Antonines. Part II. Sec. I. ''The death of [[Caesar]]''.</Ref>
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| [[Caesar]] was the [[Patronus]] of the empire of [[Rome]] and [[Son of God]] as a ''[[Nimrod|mighty provider instead of the LORD]]''<Ref>"The annual Temple-tribute was allowed to be transported to [[Jerusalem]], and the alienation of these funds by the civil magistrates treated as sacrilege. As the Jews objected to bear arms, or march, on the [[Sabbath]], they were freed from military service. On similar grounds, they were not obliged to appear in courts of law on their holy days. Augustus even ordered that, when the [[Public religion|public distribution]] of corn or of money among the [[citizen|citizens]] fell on a [[Sabbath]], the Jews were to receive their share on the following day. In a similar spirit the Roman authorities confirmed a decree by which the founder of Antioch, Seleucus I. (Nicator),[d Ob.280 B.C.] had granted the Jews the right of citizenship in all the cities of Asia Minor and Syria which he had built, and the privilege of receiving, instead of the oil that was distributed, which their [[religion]] forbade them to use, [e Ab. Sar ii. 6] an equivalent in money. ([[Josephus|Jos.Ant. xii. 3. 1]]) These rights were maintained by Vespasian and [[Titus]] even after the last Jewish war, notwithstanding the earnest remonstrances of these cities. No wonder, that at the death of [[Caesar]] [g 44 B.C.] the Jews of [[Rome]] gathered for many nights, waking strange feelings of awe in the city, as they chanted in mournful melodies their Psalms around the pyre on which the body of their [[benefactor]] had been burnt, and raised their pathetic dirges." ''Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah'' by Alfred Edersheim, Chapt. V </Ref>
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| “Some scholars regard the ancient confederation of Hebrew tribes that endured in Palestine from the 15th century BC until a monarchy was established about 1020 BC as an [[Embryonic republics|embryonic republic]]. That would make the ancient Israelite commonwealth the earliest republic in history....”<Ref>“[[Republic]],” Microsoft ® Encarta. © 1994 Ms. Corp. and F & W Corp.</Ref> A [[Republic]] is neither a [[democracy]] nor an [[Republican form|indirect democracy]].
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| '''Questions'''
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| What did it mean to [[respecter of persons|regardest not the person]] of men, but teachest [[the way]] of God in [[truth]]?
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| Are you conforming to the [[doctrines of men]] or the [[doctrine of Jesus]]?
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| Are you a [[doer |doer of the word]] or under a [[strong delusion]]?
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| Have you [[repent|repented]] like we were called to do according to the Gospel of Christ?<Ref>[[Mark 1]]:[1] The beginning of the gospel of [[Christ|Jesus Christ]], the [[Son of God]];[2] As it is written in the [[prophets]] , Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare [[The Way|thy way]] before thee. [3] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye [[the way]] of the Lord, make his [[5147|paths]] straight.</Ref>
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| To you [[seek]] the [[righteousness]] of God or the [[reward of unrighteousness]]?
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| '''Links mentioned'''
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| '''[[Republic]]''', [[Democracy]], [[one form of government|one form of governments]], [[Taxation]], [[tithe]], [[free bread]] of [[Rome vs US|Rome]] and the [[daily bread]] of [[Christ]] which the [[Corban of Christ]]. People needed [[Declaration of Independence]] from the [[Imperial Cult of Rome|Roman Imperial Cult]] and the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]], [[Was Paul a Roman Citizen]], [[Care]], [[Social bonds]], [[Social welfare]], [[FEMA]], [[Legal charity]], [[Christian conflict]], [[Flesh pots]] and the [[cities of blood]], [[Force]] or [[peace]], [[The way]] of the [[righteousness]]   or the [[Great Society]] of the [[masses]].
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|'''“The [[Abomination of desolation|real destroyers]] of the liberties of the people is [[FDR|he who spreads]] among them [[legal charity|bounties]], [[dainties|donations]], and [[benefits]].”''' [[Plutarch]]
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== The Vineyard and the Husbandman ==

[1] And he began to speak unto them by [[parables]]. <span style="color:#FF0000">'''A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref>, and went into a far country.'''</Span>

[2] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And at the season he sent to the Husbandman<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref> a servant<Ref name="doulos">{{1401}}</Ref>, that he might receive from the husbandmen<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref> of the fruit of the vineyard.'''</Span>

=== Beat the bondsman===

[3] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.'''</Span>

=== Wounded the bondsman===

[4] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.'''</Span>

=== Kill the bondsman===

[5] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.'''</Span>

[6] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.'''</Span>

=== Kills the son===

[7] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''But those husbandmen<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref> said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance<Ref name="kleronomia">{{2872}}</Ref> shall be ours.'''</Span>

[8] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.'''</Span>

== What shall be done ==

[9] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen<Ref name="georgos">{{1092}}</Ref>, and will give the vineyard unto others.'''</Span>

[10] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:'''</Span>

[11] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'''</Span>

==They sought to kill ==

[12] And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

[13] And they send unto him certain of the [[Pharisees]] and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

== A trap ==

[14] And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou [[respecter of persons|regardest not the person]] of men, but teachest [[the way]] of God in [[truth]]: Is it lawful to give [[tribute]] to [[Caesar]], or not?

[15] Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their [[Hypocrites|hypocrisy]], said unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.'''</Span>

[16] And they brought it. And he saith unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Whose is this image and superscription?'''</Span> And they said unto him, Caesar's.

== Render what is owed ==

[17] And Jesus answering said unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.'''</Span> And they marvelled at him.

== Resurrection ==

[18] Then come unto him the [[Sadducees]], which say there is no [[resurrection]]; and they asked him, saying,

[19] Master, [[Moses]] wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

[20] Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

[21] And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.

[22] And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.

[23] In the [[resurrection]] therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

=== The err ===

[24] And Jesus answering said unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?'''</Span>

[25] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.'''</Span>

== God of the living ==

[26] And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of [[Moses]], how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of [[Abraham]], and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

[27] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.'''</Span>

== Primary command ==

[28] And one of the [[scribe|scribes]] came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Which is the first commandment<Ref name="entole">{{1785}}</Ref> of all?'''</Span>

[29] And [[Jesus]] answered him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''The first of all the [[commandments]] is, Hear, O [[Israel]]; The Lord our God is one Lord:'''</Span>

[30] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And thou shalt [[love]] the Lord thy God with all thy heart<Ref name="heartmind">{{heartmind}}</Ref>, and with all thy [[soul]], and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first [[Commandments|commandment]]. '''</Span>

[31] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt [[love]] thy neighbour as thyself.<Ref name="Lovegn">{{Lovegn}}</Ref> There is none other commandment greater than these.'''</Span>

[32] And the [[scribe]] said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the ''truth'': for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

[33] And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself,<Ref name="Lovegn">{{Lovegn}}</Ref> is more than all whole [[burnt offering]]s and [[sacrifice]]s.

[34] And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Thou art not far from the [[kingdom of God]].'''</Span> And no man after that durst ask him any question.

[35] And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?'''</Span>

[36] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''For David himself said by the [[Holy Ghost]], The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'''</Span>

[37] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son?'''</Span> And the common people heard him gladly.

[38] And he said unto them in his doctrine, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,'''</Span>

[39] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:'''</Span>

[40] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.'''</Span>

== Judged by the treasury ==

[41] And Jesus sat over against <Ref name="kathizo">{{2523}}</Ref> the [[treasury]],<Ref name="gazophulakion">{{1049}}</Ref> and beheld how the people cast money into the [[treasury]]<Ref name="gazophulakion">{{1049}}</Ref>: and many that were rich cast in much.

[42] And there came a certain poor [[widow]], and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

[43] And he called unto him his [[disciples]], and saith unto them, <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Verily I say unto you, That this poor [[widow]] hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the [[treasury]]:<Ref name="gazophulakion">{{1049}}</Ref>'''</Span>

[44] <span style="color:#FF0000">'''For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.'''</Span><br>

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