Summary

In Chapter 14, on the morning of Tuesday, April 3 AD 30, Jesus and his disciples enjoy Lazarus’s hospitality, but as the sun rises, they head into Jerusalem, passing as simple pilgrims because they wear plain garb.

As Jesus sits down to teach inside the Temple, the elite religious leaders immediately interrupt to ask by what authority he healed people yesterday, but when Jesus refuses to respond until they tell him whether John the Baptist was sent by Heaven or man, they are stumped. Jesus tells them that tax collectors and prostitutes will enter Heaven before the Pharisees because these sinners believed John the Baptists when he came to reveal the way to righteousness, even when the religious leaders did not.

Jesus continues preaching by telling two parables that offend the Pharisees, causing them to send their disciples to trap Jesus by asking whether paying taxes...