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15 Should we pay [them] or should we not pay [them]? But knowing their hypocrisy, He asked them, Why do you put Me to the test? Bring Me a coin (a denarius), so I may see it.

16 And they brought [Him one]. Then He asked them, Whose image (picture) is this? And whose superscription ([a]title)? They said to Him, Caesar’s.

17 Jesus said to them, Pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to [b]God the things that are God’s. And they [c]stood marveling and greatly amazed at Him.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:16 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.
  2. Mark 12:17 A rebuke of emperor worship.
  3. Mark 12:17 Kenneth Wuest, Word Studies.

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