24Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
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But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)We have here Christ’s evading a snare which his enemies laid for him, by proposing a question to him about tribute. We had this passage before, both in Matthew and Mark. Here is, I. The mischief designed him, and that is more fully related here than before. The plot was to deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor , Luke 20:20. They could not themselves put him to death by course of…
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