Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.
Mark 12:12
Sometimes the people grasped Jesus's parables clearly as in this case.
Should we pay or shouldn't we?" But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose image is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied. Then Jesus said to them, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.
Mark 12:15-17 NIV
Mark 12:15-17 NIV
Jesus is am amazing teacher, certainly the greatest teacher and debater of all time!
He spoke clearly and concisely and undid even their best traps.
It is interesting about the parallel here between the coin and us that he draws. The coin has the image of Caesar, so give that back to Caesar. He doesn't directly say what we should give to God, but the clear parallel is that we were made in God's image, so we should give ourselves to God!
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