Add parallel Print Page Options

15 Should we give or not?

Jesus (seeing through their ruse): Why do you test Me like this? Listen, bring Me a coin[a] so that I can take a look at it.

16 When they had brought it to Him, He asked them another question.

Jesus: Tell Me, whose picture is on this coin? And of whom does this inscription speak?

Pharisees: Caesar, of course.

Jesus: 17 Then give to the emperor what belongs to the emperor. And give to God what belongs to God.

They could not think of anything to say to His response.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 12:15 Literally, denarius, a Roman coin

Bible Gateway Recommends