Luke 20
1 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,
अथैकदा यीशु र्मनिदरे सुसंवादं प्रचारयन् लोकानुपदिशति, एतर्हि प्रधानयाजका अध्यापकाः प्राञ्चश्च तन्निकटमागत्य पप्रच्छुः
2 and addressing him, said, “Tell us what authority you have to do these things. Who is it who has given you this authority?”
कयाज्ञया त्वं कर्म्माण्येतानि करोषि? को वा त्वामाज्ञापयत्? तदस्मान् वद।
3 “I, too,” said Jesus in reply, “will ask you one question. Give me an answer to it.
स प्रत्युवाच, तर्हि युष्मानपि कथामेकां पृच्छामि तस्योत्तरं वदत।
4 It is about John’s baptism – was it of divine or of human origin?”
योहनो मज्जनम् ईश्वरस्य मानुषाणां वाज्ञातो जातं?
5 But they began arguing together, “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’
ततस्ते मिथो विविच्य जगदुः, यदीश्वरस्य वदामस्तर्हि तं कुतो न प्रत्यैत स इति वक्ष्यति।
6 But, if we say ‘human,’ the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”
यदि मनुष्यस्येति वदामस्तर्हि सर्व्वे लोका अस्मान् पाषाणै र्हनिष्यन्ति यतो योहन् भविष्यद्वादीति सर्व्वे दृढं जानन्ति।
7 So they answered that they did not know its origin.
अतएव ते प्रत्यूचुः कस्याज्ञया जातम् इति वक्तुं न शक्नुमः।
8 “Then I,” said Jesus, “refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.”
तदा यीशुरवदत् तर्हि कयाज्ञया कर्म्माण्येताति करोमीति च युष्मान् न वक्ष्यामि।
9 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.
अथ लोकानां साक्षात् स इमां दृष्टान्तकथां वक्तुमारेभे, कश्चिद् द्राक्षाक्षेत्रं कृत्वा तत् क्षेत्रं कृषीवलानां हस्तेषु समर्प्य बहुकालार्थं दूरदेशं जगाम।
10 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.
अथ फलकाले फलानि ग्रहीतु कृषीवलानां समीपे दासं प्राहिणोत् किन्तु कृषीवलास्तं प्रहृत्य रिक्तहस्तं विससर्जुः।
11 The owner afterward sent another servant; but the tenants beat and insulted this man too, and sent him away empty-handed.
ततः सोधिपतिः पुनरन्यं दासं प्रेषयामास, ते तमपि प्रहृत्य कुव्यवहृत्य रिक्तहस्तं विससृजुः।
12 He sent a third; but they wounded this man also, and threw him outside.
ततः स तृतीयवारम् अन्यं प्राहिणोत् ते तमपि क्षताङ्गं कृत्वा बहि र्निचिक्षिपुः।
13 ‘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.’
तदा क्षेत्रपति र्विचारयामास, ममेदानीं किं कर्त्तव्यं? मम प्रिये पुत्रे प्रहिते ते तमवश्यं दृष्ट्वा समादरिष्यन्ते।
14 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.’
किन्तु कृषीवलास्तं निरीक्ष्य परस्परं विविच्य प्रोचुः, अयमुत्तराधिकारी आगच्छतैनं हन्मस्ततोधिकारोस्माकं भविष्यति।
15 So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
ततस्ते तं क्षेत्राद् बहि र्निपात्य जघ्नुस्तस्मात् स क्षेत्रपतिस्तान् प्रति किं करिष्यति?
16 He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others.” “Heaven forbid!” they exclaimed when they heard it.
स आगत्य तान् कृषीवलान् हत्वा परेषां हस्तेषु तत्क्षेत्रं समर्पयिष्यति; इति कथां श्रुत्वा ते ऽवदन् एतादृशी घटना न भवतु।
17 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.’
किन्तु यीशुस्तानवलोक्य जगाद, तर्हि, स्थपतयः करिष्यन्ति ग्रावाणं यन्तु तुच्छकं। प्रधानप्रस्तरः कोणे स एव हि भविष्यति। एतस्य शास्त्रीयवचनस्य किं तात्पर्य्यं?
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.”
अपरं तत्पाषाणोपरि यः पतिष्यति स भंक्ष्यते किन्तु यस्योपरि स पाषाणः पतिष्यति स तेन धूलिवच् चूर्णीभविष्यति।
19 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.
सोस्माकं विरुद्धं दृष्टान्तमिमं कथितवान् इति ज्ञात्वा प्रधानयाजका अध्यापकाश्च तदैव तं धर्तुं ववाञ्छुः किन्तु लोकेभ्यो बिभ्युः।
20 Having watched their opportunity, they afterward 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.
अतएव तं प्रति सतर्काः सन्तः कथं तद्वाक्यदोषं धृत्वा तं देशाधिपस्य साधुवेशधारिणश्चरान् तस्य समीपे प्रेषयामासुः।
21 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;
तदा ते तं पप्रच्छुः, हे उपदेशक भवान् यथार्थं कथयन् उपदिशति, कमप्यनपेक्ष्य सत्यत्वेनैश्वरं मार्गमुपदिशति, वयमेतज्जानीमः।
22 are we right in paying tribute to the Emperor or not?”
कैसरराजाय करोस्माभि र्देयो न वा?
23 Seeing through their deceitfulness, Jesus said to them,
स तेषां वञ्चनं ज्ञात्वावदत् कुतो मां परीक्षध्वे? मां मुद्रामेकं दर्शयत।
24 “Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”
इह लिखिता मूर्तिरियं नाम च कस्य? तेऽवदन् कैसरस्य।
25 “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.”
तदा स उवाच, तर्हि कैसरस्य द्रव्यं कैसराय दत्त; ईश्वरस्य तु द्रव्यमीश्वराय दत्त।
26 They could not object to this answer before the people; and, in their wonder at his reply, they held their tongues.
तस्माल्लोकानां साक्षात् तत्कथायाः कमपि दोषं धर्तुमप्राप्य ते तस्योत्तराद् आश्चर्य्यं मन्यमाना मौनिनस्तस्थुः।
27 Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this –
अपरञ्च श्मशानादुत्थानानङ्गीकारिणां सिदूकिनां कियन्तो जना आगत्य तं पप्रच्छुः,
28 “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.’
हे उपदेशक शास्त्रे मूसा अस्मान् प्रतीति लिलेख यस्य भ्राता भार्य्यायां सत्यां निःसन्तानो म्रियते स तज्जायां विवह्य तद्वंशम् उत्पादयिष्यति।
29 Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.
तथाच केचित् सप्त भ्रातर आसन् तेषां ज्येष्ठो भ्राता विवह्य निरपत्यः प्राणान् जहौ।
30 The second and third brothers both took her as their wife;
अथ द्वितीयस्तस्य जायां विवह्य निरपत्यः सन् ममार। तृतीयश्च तामेव व्युवाह;
31 and so, too, did all seven – dying without children.
इत्थं सप्त भ्रातरस्तामेव विवह्य निरपत्याः सन्तो मम्रुः।
32 The woman herself was the last to die.
शेषे सा स्त्री च ममार।
33 About the woman, then – at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?”
अतएव श्मशानादुत्थानकाले तेषां सप्तजनानां कस्य सा भार्य्या भविष्यति? यतः सा तेषां सप्तानामेव भार्य्यासीत्।
तदा यीशुः प्रत्युवाच, एतस्य जगतो लोका विवहन्ति वाग्दत्ताश्च भवन्ति (aiōn g165)
35 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)
किन्तु ये तज्जगत्प्राप्तियोग्यत्वेन गणितां भविष्यन्ति श्मशानाच्चोत्थास्यन्ति ते न विवहन्ति वाग्दत्ताश्च न भवन्ति, (aiōn g165)
36 nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God’s children.
ते पुन र्न म्रियन्ते किन्तु श्मशानादुत्थापिताः सन्त ईश्वरस्य सन्तानाः स्वर्गीयदूतानां सदृशाश्च भवन्ति।
37 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.’
अधिकन्तु मूसाः स्तम्बोपाख्याने परमेश्वर ईब्राहीम ईश्वर इस्हाक ईश्वरो याकूबश्चेश्वर इत्युक्त्वा मृतानां श्मशानाद् उत्थानस्य प्रमाणं लिलेख।
38 Now he is not God of dead people, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.”
अतएव य ईश्वरः स मृतानां प्रभु र्न किन्तु जीवतामेव प्रभुः, तन्निकटे सर्व्वे जीवन्तः सन्ति।
39 “Well said, teacher!” exclaimed some of the teachers of the Law,
इति श्रुत्वा कियन्तोध्यापका ऊचुः, हे उपदेशक भवान् भद्रं प्रत्युक्तवान्।
40 for they did not venture to question him any further.
इतः परं तं किमपि प्रष्टं तेषां प्रगल्भता नाभूत्।
41 But Jesus said to them, “How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David’s son?
पश्चात् स तान् उवाच, यः ख्रीष्टः स दायूदः सन्तान एतां कथां लोकाः कथं कथयन्ति?
42 For David, in the book of Psalms, says himself – ‘The Lord said to my lord: Sit at my right hand,
यतः मम प्रभुमिदं वाक्यमवदत् परमेश्वरः। तव शत्रूनहं यावत् पादपीठं करोमि न। तावत् कालं मदीये त्वं दक्षपार्श्व उपाविश।
43 until I put your enemies as a stool for your feet.’
इति कथां दायूद् स्वयं गीतग्रन्थेऽवदत्।
44 David, then, calls him ‘lord,’ so how is he David’s son?”
अतएव यदि दायूद् तं प्रभुं वदति, तर्हि स कथं तस्य सन्तानो भवति?
45 While all the people were listening, Jesus said to the disciples,
पश्चाद् यीशुः सर्व्वजनानां कर्णगोचरे शिष्यानुवाच,
46 “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 honor at dinner.
येऽध्यापका दीर्घपरिच्छदं परिधाय भ्रमन्ति, हट्टापणयो र्नमस्कारे भजनगेहस्य प्रोच्चासने भोजनगृहस्य प्रधानस्थाने च प्रीयन्ते
47 These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”
विधवानां सर्व्वस्वं ग्रसित्वा छलेन दीर्घकालं प्रार्थयन्ते च तेषु सावधाना भवत, तेषामुग्रदण्डो भविष्यति।
