25And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
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For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. …
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; …
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. …
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
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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