Matthew 22:19

Matthew 22:19

17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

18 But Jesus¹ perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites?

19 Show Me the tax money.” So they brought Him a denarius.

20 And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”

21 They said to Him, “Caesar’s.” And He said to them, ^a“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are ^bCaesar’s, and to God the things that are ^cGod’s.”

22 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.

The Sadducees: What About the Resurrection?

23 ^aThe same day the Sadducees, ^bwho say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,

24 saying: “Teacher, ^aMoses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Tribute money (to nomisma tou khnsou). Khnsov, Latin census, was a capitation tax or head-money, tributum capitis, for which silver denaria were struck, with the figure of Caesar and a superscription, e.g. "Tiberiou Kaisaros" (McNeile). Nomisma is the Latin numisma and occurs here only in the N.T., is common in the old Greek, from nomizw sanctioned by law or custom.

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