Luc 20
1 Un de ces jours-là, comme Jésus enseignait le peuple dans le temple et qu’il annonçait la bonne nouvelle, les principaux sacrificateurs et les scribes, avec les anciens, survinrent,
On one of these days, when Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple Courts and telling the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the Law, joined by the elders, confronted him,
2 et lui dirent: Dis-nous, par quelle autorité fais-tu ces choses, ou qui est celui qui t’a donné cette autorité?
and addressing him, said, ‘Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who is it who has given you this authority?’
3 Il leur répondit: Je vous adresserai aussi une question.
‘I, too,’ said Jesus in reply, ‘will ask you one question. Give me an answer to it.
4 Dites-moi, le baptême de Jean venait-il du ciel, ou des hommes?
It is about John’s baptism – was it of divine or of human origin?’
5 Mais ils raisonnèrent ainsi entre eux: Si nous répondons: Du ciel, il dira: Pourquoi n’avez-vous pas cru en lui?
But they began arguing together, ‘If we say “divine,” he will say “Why didn’t you believe him?”
6 Et si nous répondons: Des hommes, tout le peuple nous lapidera, car il est persuadé que Jean était un prophète.
But, if we say “human,” the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.’
7 Alors ils répondirent qu’ils ne savaient d’où il venait.
So they answered that they did not know its origin.
8 Et Jésus leur dit: Moi non plus, je ne vous dirai pas par quelle autorité je fais ces choses.
‘Then I,’ said Jesus, ‘refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.’
9 Il se mit ensuite à dire au peuple cette parabole: Un homme planta une vigne, l’afferma à des vignerons, et quitta pour longtemps le pays.
But Jesus began to tell the people this parable – ‘A man once planted a vineyard, and then let it out to tenants, and went abroad for a long while.
10 Au temps de la récolte, il envoya un serviteur vers les vignerons, pour qu’ils lui donnent une part du produit de la vigne. Les vignerons le battirent, et le renvoyèrent à vide.
At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they could give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
11 Il envoya encore un autre serviteur; ils le battirent, l’outragèrent, et le renvoyèrent à vide.
The owner afterwards sent another servant; but the tenants beat and insulted this man too, and sent him away empty-handed.
12 Il en envoya encore un troisième; ils le blessèrent, et le chassèrent.
He sent a third; but they wounded this man also, and threw him outside.
13 Le maître de la vigne dit: Que ferai-je? J’enverrai mon fils bien-aimé; peut-être auront-ils pour lui du respect.
“What should I do?” said the owner of the vineyard. “I will send my son, who is very dear to me. Perhaps they will respect him.”
14 Mais, quand les vignerons le virent, ils raisonnèrent entre eux, et dirent: Voici l’héritier; tuons-le, afin que l’héritage soit à nous.
But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. “Here is the heir!” they said. “Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.”
15 Et ils le jetèrent hors de la vigne, et le tuèrent. Maintenant, que leur fera le maître de la vigne?
So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
16 Il viendra, fera périr ces vignerons, et il donnera la vigne à d’autres. Lorsqu’ils eurent entendu cela, ils dirent: A Dieu ne plaise!
He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others.’ ‘Heaven forbid!’ they exclaimed when they heard it.
17 Mais, jetant les regards sur eux, Jésus dit: Que signifie donc ce qui estécrit: La pierre qu’ont rejetée ceux qui bâtissaient Est devenue la principale de l’angle?
But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘What then is the meaning of this passage? – “The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the cornerstone.”
18 Quiconque tombera sur cette pierre s’y brisera, etcelui sur qui elle tombera sera écrasé.
Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.’
19 Les principaux sacrificateurs et les scribes cherchèrent à mettre la main sur lui à l’heure même, mais ils craignirent le peuple. Ils avaient compris que c’était pour eux que Jésus avait dit cette parabole.
After this the teachers of the Law and the chief priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.
20 Ils se mirent à observer Jésus; et ils envoyèrent des gens qui feignaient d’être justes, pour lui tendre des pièges et saisir de lui quelque parole, afin de le livrer au magistrat et à l’autorité du gouverneur.
Having watched their opportunity, they afterwards sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor’s jurisdiction and authority.
21 Ces gens lui posèrent cette question: Maître, nous savons que tu parles et enseignes droitement, et que tu ne regardes pas à l’apparence, mais que tu enseignes la voie de Dieu selon la vérité.
These spies asked Jesus a question. They said, ‘Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you do not take any account of a person’s position, but teach the way of God honestly;
22 Nous est-il permis, ou non, de payer le tribut à César?
are we right in paying tribute to the Emperor or not?’
23 Jésus, apercevant leur ruse, leur répondit: Montrez-moi un denier.
Seeing through their deceitfulness, Jesus said to them,
24 De qui porte-t-il l’effigie et l’inscription? De César, répondirent-ils.
‘Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?’
25 Alors il leur dit: Rendez donc à César ce qui est à César, et à Dieu ce qui est à Dieu.
‘The Emperor’s,’ they said; and Jesus replied, ‘Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.’
26 Ils ne purent rien reprendre dans ses paroles devant le peuple; mais, étonnés de sa réponse, ils gardèrent le silence.
They could not object to this answer before the people; and, in their wonder at his reply, they held their tongues.
27 Quelques-uns des sadducéens, qui disent qu’il n’y a point de résurrection, s’approchèrent, et posèrent à Jésus cette question:
Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this –
28 Maître, voici ce que Moïse nous a prescrit: Si le frère de quelqu’un meurt, ayant une femme sans avoir d’enfants, son frère épousera la femme, et suscitera une postérité à son frère.
‘Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that – “Should a man’s married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.”
29 Or, il y avait sept frères. Le premier se maria, et mourut sans enfants.
Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.
30 Le second et le troisième épousèrent la veuve;
The second and third brothers both took her as their wife;
31 il en fut de même des sept, qui moururent sans laisser d’enfants.
and so, too, did all seven – dying without children.
32 Enfin, la femme mourut aussi.
The woman herself was the last to die.
33 A la résurrection, duquel d’entre eux sera-t-elle donc la femme? Car les sept l’ont eue pour femme.
About the woman, then – at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?’
‘The men and women of this world,’ said Jesus, ‘marry and are given in marriage; (aiōn g165)
35 mais ceux qui seront trouvés dignes d’avoir part au siècle à venir et à la résurrection des morts ne prendront ni femmes ni maris. (aiōn g165)
but, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married, (aiōn g165)
36 Car ils ne pourront plus mourir, parce qu’ils serontsemblables aux anges, et qu’ils seront fils de Dieu, étant fils de la résurrection.
nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God’s children.
37 Que les morts ressuscitent, c’est ce que Moïse a fait connaître quand, à propos du buisson, il appellele Seigneur le Dieu d’Abraham, le Dieu d’Isaac, et le Dieu de Jacob.
As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord – “The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
38 Or, Dieu n’est pas Dieu des morts, mais des vivants; car pour lui tous sont vivants.
Now he is not God of dead people, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.’
39 Quelques-uns des scribes, prenant la parole, dirent: Maître, tu as bien parlé.
‘Well said, teacher!’ exclaimed some of the teachers of the Law,
40 Et ils n’osaient plus lui faire aucune question.
for they did not venture to question him any further.
41 Jésus leur dit: Comment dit-on que le Christ est fils de David?
But Jesus said to them, ‘How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David’s son?
42 David lui-même dit dans le livre des Psaumes: Le Seigneur a dit à mon Seigneur: Assieds-toi à ma droite,
For David, in the book of Psalms, says himself – “The Lord said to my lord: Sit at my right hand,
43 Jusqu’à ce que je fasse de tes ennemis ton marchepied.
until I put your enemies as a stool for your feet.”
44 David donc l’appelle Seigneur; comment est-il son fils?
David, then, calls him “lord,” so how is he David’s son?’
45 Tandis que tout le peuple l’écoutait, il dit à ses disciples:
While all the people were listening, Jesus said to the disciples,
46 Gardez-vous des scribes, qui aiment à se promener en robes longues, et à être salués dans les places publiques; qui recherchent les premiers sièges dans les synagogues, et les premières places dans les festins;
‘Be on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who delight to walk about in long robes, and like to be greeted in the streets with respect, and to have the best seats in the synagogues, and places of honour at dinner.
47 qui dévorent les maisons des veuves, et qui font pour l’apparence de longues prières. Ils seront jugés plus sévèrement.
These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretence of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.’
