Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
things which be Cæsar's—Putting it in this general form, it was impossible for sedition itself to dispute it, and yet it dissolved the snare.
and unto God—How much there is in this profound but to them startling addition to the maxim, and how incomparable is the whole for fulness, brevity, clearness, weight!
ENTANGLING QUESTIONS ABOUT TRIBUTE AND THE RESURRECTION—THE REPLIES. (Luke 20:20-40)
sent forth—after consulting (Matthew 22:15) on the best plan.
spies—"of the Pharisees and Herodians" (Mark 12:13). See Mark 3:6.
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