Luke 20 Round Two: Jesus Can Shut a Fool Up

Power walks into a trap and trips over the truth. We open Luke 20 and move through a series of high-stakes confrontations where Jesus refuses to answer bad-faith questions on their terms and instead reframes reality around God’s kingdom. The leaders demand to know his authority; he points them back to John and exposes their evasions. Then he tells the parable of the tenant farmers, a sobering sweep of Israel’s resistance to God’s messengers and the murder of the beloved Son, anchoring it with...