San Lucas 20
1 En cierta ocasión Jesús estaba enseñando en el Templo a la gente, diciéndoles la buena noticia. Y algunos de los jefes de los sacerdotes y maestros religiosos vinieron con los ancianos.
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 Entonces le preguntaron: “Dinos: ¿con qué autoridad estás haciendo esto? ¿Quién te dio el derecho para hacerlo?”
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 “Déjenme hacerles una pregunta también”, respondió Jesús. “Díganme:
He replied, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me,
4 el bautismo de Juan, ¿provenía del cielo, o era solo un bautismo humano?”
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 Entonces ellos consultaron entre sí, diciendo: “Si decimos que venía del cielo, él nos preguntará: ‘Entonces ¿por qué no creyeron en él?’
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 Y si decimos que solo era un bautismo humano, todos nos apedrearán porque ellos están seguros de que Juan era un profeta”.
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 Así que respondieron, diciendo: “No sabemos de dónde venía”.
So they replied, “We [(exc)] do not know where [John got his authority].”
8 A lo cual Jesús respondió: “Entonces yo no les diré con qué autoridad hago lo que hago”.
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 Luego comenzó a contarle un relato a las personas: “Había una vez un hombre que sembró una viña, la arrendó a unos granjeros y se fue a vivir a otro país por un largo tiempo.
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 Cuando llegó el tiempo de la cosecha, el dueño envió un siervo donde los granjeros para que recogiera de la cosecha, pero los granjeros golpearon al siervo y lo echaron con las manos vacías.
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 Así que el propietario envió a otro siervo, pero también lo golpearon y lo maltrataron terriblemente, y lo echaron con las manos vacías.
[Later], [the owner] sent another servant. But they beat him and mistreated him [also]. They sent him away without giving him any grapes.
12 Entonces el propietario envió a un tercer siervo, y ellos lo hirieron, y lo lanzaron fuera.
[Still later, the owner] sent another servant. That one they wounded and threw him out [of the vineyard].
13 “Luego el propietario de la viña se preguntó a sí mismo: ‘¿Qué haré? Ya sé, enviaré a mi hijo, al que amo. Quizás a él lo respetarán’.
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 Pero cuando lo vieron venir, los granjeros debatieron entre ellos y dijeron: ‘Este es el heredero del dueño. ¡Matémoslo! Así podremos quedarnos con su herencia’.
[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 Entonces lo lanzaron fuera de la viña y lo mataron. Ahora, ¿qué hará el dueño de la viña con ellos?
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 Vendrá y los matará y le entregará la viña a otros”. Cuando ellos oyeron este relato, dijeron: “¡Ojalá que nunca ocurra eso!”
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 Pero Jesús los miró y dijo: “Entonces ¿por qué dicen las Escrituras: ‘La piedra que los constructores rechazaron se ha convertido en la piedra angular’?
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 Todo el que se tropieza con esa piedra, se hará pedazos; y aplastará a aquellos a quienes les caiga encima”.
[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 E inmediatamente los maestros religiosos y los jefes de los sacerdotes quisieron arrestarlo porque se dieron cuenta de que el relato que Jesús había contado estaba dirigido contra a ellos, pero tenían miedo de lo que la gente pudiera hacer.
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 Así que esperando la oportunidad, enviaron espías que se hicieron pasar por hombres sinceros. Ellos trataban de sorprender a Jesús diciendo algo que les permitiera entregarlo al poder y autoridad del gobernador.
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 Entonces le dijeron: “Maestro, sabemos que enseñas lo que es recto, y que no te dejas persuadir por la opinión de los demás. Tú realmente enseñas el camino de Dios.
[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 ¿Deberíamos pagar los impuestos al Cesar, o no?”
[So tell us what you think about this matter]: Is it right that we pay taxes to the Roman government [MTY], or not?”
23 Pero Jesús se dio cuenta de su trampa, y les dijo:
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 “Muéstrenme una moneda, un denario. ¿De quién es la imagen y la inscripción que están en ella?” “Es del césar”, respondieron ellos.
“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 “Entonces páguenle al César lo que le corresponde al César, y páguenle a Dios lo que le corresponde a Dios”, les dijo.
He said to them, “In that case, give to the government [MTY] what they [require], and give to God what he [requires].”
26 Y ellos no pudieron atraparlo por lo que le dijo a la gente. Quedaron pasmados con esta respuesta, y se quedaron en silencio.
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 Entonces vinieron unos Saduceos, quienes no creen en la resurrección, y le hicieron a Jesús la siguiente pregunta:
Some Sadducees came to [Jesus]. They are a Jewish sect who do not believe that people will become alive again after they die.
28 “Maestro”, comenzaron, “Moisés nos dio una ley que dice que si un hombre casado muere y deja a su esposa sin hijos, entonces su hermano debe casarse con la viuda y tener hijos por ese hermano que murió.
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 Había siete hermanos. El primero tuvo una esposa y murió sin tener hijos.
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 Luego el segundo
The second [brother followed this law and married the widow, but the same thing happened to him].
31 y el tercer hermano se casaron con ella. Al final todos los siete hermanos se casaron con ella, y murieron sin tener hijos.
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 Finalmente ella también murió.
Afterwards, the woman died, too.
33 Ahora, ¿cuál de todos será su esposo en la resurrección, siendo que todos los siete hermanos se casaron con ella?”
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 “Pero los que sean dignos de participar del mundo venidero y de la resurrección de entre los muertos no se casarán ni se darán en casamiento. (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 Ya no podrán morir; serán como ángeles y son hijos de Dios puesto que son hijos de la resurrección.
[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 Pero en cuanto a la pregunta sobre si los muertos resucitarán, incluso Moisés demostró este hecho cuando escribió sobre el arbusto ardiente, cuando llama al Señor como ‘el Dios de Abraham, el Dios de Isaac, y el Dios 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 Él no es el Dios de los muertos, sino de los vivos, porque para él ellos aún están vivos”.
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 Algunos de los maestros religiosos respondieron: “Esa fue una buena respuesta, Maestro”.
Some of the men who taught the [Jewish] laws replied, “Teacher, you [(sg)] have answered very well!”
40 Y después de esto, ninguno se atrevió a hacerle más preguntas.
After that, they no longer dared to ask him any more questions [like that to try to trap him].
41 Entonces Jesús les preguntó: “¿Por qué se dice que Cristo es el hijo 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 Pues el mismo David dice en el libro de los salmos: ‘El Señor le dijo a mi Señor: “Siéntate a mi diestra
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 hasta que ponga a tus enemigos como estrado de tus pies”’.
[Sit here] while I completely defeat your enemies.
44 David lo llama ‘Señor’. ¿Cómo entonces, puede ser el hijo de David?”
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 Mientras todos estaban atentos, dijo a sus discípulos:
While all the [other] people were listening, [Jesus] said to his disciples,
46 “Cuídense de los líderes religiosos a quienes les gusta caminar por ahí con batas largas, y les encanta que los saluden en las plazas, y tener los mejores asientos en las sinagogas y lugares de honor en los banquetes.
“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 Ellos engañan a las viudas y les quitan lo que tienen, y ocultan el tipo de personas que son realmente por medio de sus largas oraciones. Ellos recibirán una condenación severa en el juicio”.
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.”
