Luc 20
1 Et il arriva, l’un de ces jours, comme il enseignait le peuple dans le temple et évangélisait, que les principaux sacrificateurs et les scribes survinrent avec les anciens.
One day [during that week, Jesus] was teaching the people in the Temple [courtyard] and telling them [God’s] good message. As he was doing that, the chief priests, the men who taught the [Jewish] laws, and [other Jewish] elders came to him.
2 Et ils lui parlèrent, disant: Dis-nous par quelle autorité tu fais ces choses, ou qui est celui qui t’a donné cette autorité?
They asked him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who authorized you to do things [like you did here yesterday]?”
3 Et répondant, il leur dit: Je vous demanderai, moi aussi, une chose, et dites-moi:
He replied, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me,
4 Le baptême de Jean était-il du ciel, ou des hommes?
where did John [the Baptizer] get [his authority to] baptize [those who came to him]? [Did he get it] from God [MTY/EUP] or from people?”
5 Et ils raisonnèrent entre eux, disant: Si nous disons: Du ciel, il dira: Pourquoi ne l’avez-vous pas cru?
They discussed this among themselves. They said, “[If we(inc) say], ‘[It was] from God [MTY/EUP],’ he will say to us, ‘[Then] (you should have believed John’s [message]!/why did you not believe what John preached?) [RHQ]’
6 Et si nous disons: Des hommes, tout le peuple nous lapidera, car il est persuadé que Jean était un prophète.
But if we say, ‘It was [from] people,’ the people [here] will [kill us by] throwing stones at us, because they [all] believe that John was a prophet [from God].”
7 Et ils répondirent qu’ils ne savaient pas d’où [il était].
So they replied, “We [(exc)] do not know where [John got his authority].”
8 Et Jésus leur dit: Moi non plus, je ne vous dis pas par quelle autorité je fais ces choses.
Then Jesus said to them, “[Because you did not answer my question], I will not tell you who authorized me to do those things [here yesterday].”
9 Et il se mit à dire au peuple cette parabole: Un homme planta une vigne, et la loua à des cultivateurs, et s’en alla hors du pays pour longtemps.
Then Jesus told the people this parable [to illustrate what God would do to the Jews who rejected the former prophets and himself]: “A [certain] man planted a vineyard. He rented the vineyard to some men [to care for it and to give him some of the grapes in return]. Then he went to another country and stayed there several years.
10 Et en la saison, il envoya un esclave aux cultivateurs, afin qu’ils lui donnent du fruit de la vigne; mais les cultivateurs, l’ayant battu, le renvoyèrent à vide.
When [the vines started producing] grapes, he sent a servant to the men who were taking care of the vineyard. He expected that they would give him some of the grapes that the vineyard had produced. But [after the servant arrived], they beat him and they did not give him any grapes. They [just] sent him away.
11 Et il envoya encore un autre esclave; mais l’ayant battu lui aussi, et l’ayant traité ignominieusement, ils le renvoyèrent à vide.
[Later], [the owner] sent another servant. But they beat him and mistreated him [also]. They sent him away without giving him any grapes.
12 Et il en envoya encore un troisième; mais ils blessèrent aussi celui-ci, et le jetèrent dehors.
[Still later, the owner] sent another servant. That one they wounded and threw him out [of the vineyard].
13 Et le maître de la vigne dit: Que ferai-je? J’enverrai mon fils bien-aimé; peut-être que, quand ils verront celui-ci, ils le respecteront.
So the owner of the vineyard thought to himself, ‘(I do not know what to do!/What shall I do?) [RHQ]’ [Then he had an idea. He thought to himself], ‘I will send my son, [whom I] love [very much]. Perhaps they will respect him [and give him my share of the grapes].’
14 Mais quand les cultivateurs le virent, ils raisonnèrent entre eux, disant: Celui-ci est l’héritier, tuons-le, afin que l’héritage soit à nous.
[So he sent his son], but when the men who were caring for the vineyard saw him [coming], they said to each other, ‘Here [comes] the man who will [some day] inherit [the vineyard]. Let’s kill him so that this vineyard will be ours!’
15 Et l’ayant jeté hors de la vigne, ils le tuèrent. Que leur fera donc le maître de la vigne?
So they dragged him outside the vineyard and they killed him. So (I will tell you what the owner of the vineyard will do to them!/do you know what the owner of the vineyard will do to them?) [RHQ]
16 Il viendra et fera périr ces cultivateurs, et donnera la vigne à d’autres. Et l’ayant entendu, ils dirent: Qu’ainsi n’advienne!
He will come and kill those men who were taking care of the vineyard. Then he will arrange for other people to take care of it.” When the people listening to Jesus heard that, they said, “[We would] not do anything like those wicked men did!”
17 Et lui, les regardant, dit: Qu’est-ce donc que ceci qui est écrit: « La pierre que ceux qui bâtissaient ont rejetée, celle-là est devenue la maîtresse pierre du coin »?
But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “You can say that, [but think about] the meaning of these words that are written {which [a prophet] wrote} [RHQ] [in the Scriptures], The men who were building a house rejected a certain stone. But others put that same stone in its proper place, and it has become the most important stone in the building [MET].
18 Quiconque tombera sur cette pierre, sera brisé; mais celui sur qui elle tombera, elle le broiera.
[That stone represents me, the Messiah], and those who reject me are [like people who fall on this stone]. Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces {This stone will break to pieces everyone who falls on it}, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”
19 Et les principaux sacrificateurs et les scribes cherchèrent, en cette heure même, à mettre les mains sur lui; et ils craignaient le peuple, car ils connurent qu’il avait dit cette parabole contre eux.
The chief priests and the men who taught the [Jewish] laws realized that he was accusing them when he told the parable [about what those wicked men did]. So they immediately tried to find a way to seize [MTY] him, but [they did not seize him, because] they were afraid of [what] the people [there would do if they did that].
20 Et l’observant, ils envoyèrent des agents secrets, qui feignaient d’être justes, pour le surprendre en [quelque] parole, de manière à le livrer au magistrat et au pouvoir du gouverneur.
So they watched him carefully. They also hired (spies/secret agents) who pretended to be sincere. [But] they really wanted to get him to say something for [which they could accuse] him. They wanted to be able to turn him over to the authority of the governor [of the province. But they also knew that the Jews were disgusted with having to pay taxes to the government].
21 Et ils l’interrogèrent, disant: Maître, nous savons que tu dis et que tu enseignes justement, et que tu n’as point égard à l’apparence des personnes, mais que tu enseignes la voie de Dieu avec vérité.
[So] one of them asked Jesus, “Teacher, we [(exc)] know that you [(sg)] speak and teach what is right. You tell the truth even if important people do not like it. You teach truthfully what God wants us to do.
22 Nous est-il permis de payer le tribut à César, ou non?
[So tell us what you think about this matter]: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government [MTY], or not?”
23 Et s’apercevant de leur perfidie, il leur dit: Pourquoi me tentez-vous?
But Jesus knew that they were trying to trick him [to get him into trouble, either with the Jews, who hated to pay those taxes, or with the Roman government]. So he said to them,
24 Montrez-moi un denier; de qui a-t-il l’image et l’inscription? Et répondant, ils dirent: De César.
“Show me a [Roman] coin. [Then tell me] whose picture is on it. And [tell me whose] name is on it.” They [showed him a coin and] said, “It has the picture and name of Caesar, [the head of the Roman government].”
25 Et il leur dit: Rendez donc les choses de César à César, et les choses de Dieu à Dieu.
He said to them, “In that case, give to the government [MTY] what they [require], and give to God what he [requires].”
26 Et ils ne pouvaient le surprendre dans ses paroles devant le peuple; et étonnés de sa réponse, ils se turent.
While the people were there, the [spies] were unable to find fault with him for what he said. And they were amazed at his answer. So they said nothing.
27 Et quelques-uns des sadducéens, qui nient qu’il y ait une résurrection, s’approchèrent, et l’interrogèrent,
Some Sadducees came to [Jesus]. They are a Jewish sect who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die.
28 disant: Maître, Moïse nous a écrit, que si le frère de quelqu’un meurt, ayant une femme, et qu’il meure sans enfants, son frère prenne la femme et suscite de la postérité à son frère.
They [wanted to] ask [Jesus] a question [in order to discredit the idea that dead people will live again]. One of them said [to Jesus], “Teacher, Moses wrote for us [Jews] about situations where a man who has a wife but no children. If the man dies, his brother should marry the [dead man’s] widow so that she can have a child by him. People [will consider] that the child is the descendant of the man [who died], [and in that way the dead man will have descendants].
29 Il y avait donc sept frères; et le premier, ayant pris une femme, mourut sans enfants;
Well, there were seven brothers in one family. The oldest one married, but he and his wife did not bear any children. Later he died.
30 et le second [prit la femme, et celui-ci aussi mourut sans enfants];
The second [brother followed this law and married the widow, but the same thing happened to him].
31 et le troisième la prit, et de même aussi les sept: ils ne laissèrent pas d’enfants et moururent;
Then the third [brother] married her, [but the same thing happened again]. All seven [brothers, one by one, married that woman], [but] they had no children, and [one by one] they died.
32 et après eux tous la femme aussi mourut.
Afterwards, the woman died, too.
33 Dans la résurrection donc, duquel d’entre eux sera-t-elle la femme, car les sept l’ont eue pour femme?
Therefore, [if it is true that there will be a time] when dead people will become alive again, whose wife [do you think that woman] will be [then]? ([Keep in mind that she was married to all seven brothers!/It will be impossible to decide because] she was married to all seven brothers!) [RHQ]”
Jesus replied to them, “Men who live here in this world take wives, or are given wives [by their parents] {their [parents] choose wives [for them]}. (aiōn g165)
35 mais ceux qui seront estimés dignes d’avoir part à ce siècle-là et à la résurrection d’entre les morts, ne se marient ni ne sont donnés en mariage, (aiōn g165)
But the men whom God considers worthy of [being in heaven after] they become alive again will not be married. (aiōn g165)
36 car aussi ils ne peuvent plus mourir; car ils sont semblables aux anges, et ils sont fils de Dieu, étant fils de la résurrection.
[You need to know also that] they cannot die any more, because they will be [immortal] [SIM] like angels. [The fact that God has caused] them to be alive again [will show] that they are God’s children.
37 Or que les morts ressuscitent, Moïse même l’a montré, au [titre]: “Du buisson”, quand il appelle le Seigneur: le Dieu d’Abraham, et le Dieu d’Isaac, et le Dieu de Jacob.
But [as for people] becoming alive again after they die, Moses wrote something about that. In the place where [he wrote about] the [burning] bush, he mentions the Lord as being the God whom Abraham [worships] and the God whom Isaac [worships] and the God whom Jacob [worships].
38 Or il n’est pas le Dieu des morts, mais des vivants; car pour lui tous vivent.
It is not dead people who worship God. It is living people who worship him. [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob died long before Moses lived, but God said that they were still worshipping him, so we(inc) know their spirits were still alive]! All [people] whose [spirits] are alive [again after they die continue to live to honor God]!”
39 Et quelques-uns des scribes, répondant, dirent: Maître, tu as bien dit.
Some of the men who taught the [Jewish] laws replied, “Teacher, you [(sg)] have answered very well!”
40 Et ils n’osèrent plus l’interroger sur rien.
After that, they no longer dared to ask him any more questions [like that to try to trap him].
41 Et il leur dit: Comment dit-on que le Christ est fils de David?
Then Jesus said to them, “I will show you (OR, prove to you) that people [are wrong who] say that the Messiah is [merely] a descendant of [King] David! [RHQ]
42 Et David lui-même dit, dans le livre des Psaumes: « Le Seigneur a dit à mon seigneur: Assieds-toi à ma droite,
Because David himself wrote [about the Messiah] in the book of Psalms, God said to my Lord, Sit [here beside me] on my right, [where I will highly honor you(sg)] [MTY].
43 jusqu’à ce que je mette tes ennemis pour marchepied de tes pieds ».
[Sit here] while I completely defeat your enemies.
44 David donc l’appelle seigneur; et comment est-il son fils?
King David calls [the Messiah] ‘[my] Lord’! So ([the Messiah] cannot be [just someone] descended from [King] David!/how can the Messiah be [just] someone descended from [King] David?) [RHQ] [What I just said proves that he is much greater than David, isn’t that right]?”
45 Et comme tout le peuple écoutait, il dit à ses disciples:
While all the [other] people were listening, [Jesus] said to his disciples,
46 Soyez en garde contre les scribes, qui se plaisent à se promener en longues robes, et qui aiment les salutations dans les places publiques, et les premiers sièges dans les synagogues, et les premières places dans les repas;
“Beware that [you do not act like] the men who teach our [Jewish] laws. They like to put on long robes and walk around [to make people think that they are very important]. [They] also like [people to] greet them [respectfully] in the marketplaces. They like [to sit in] the most important places in the Jewish meeting places. At dinner parties [they like to sit in] the seats where the most honored people sit.
47 qui dévorent les maisons des veuves, et pour prétexte font de longues prières; – ceux-ci recevront une sentence plus sévère.
They swindle [MET] the houses [and property] of widows. [Then] they pretend they are good, as they pray [long] prayers [publicly. God] will [certainly] punish them very severely.”
