19Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
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 when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)It was not the least grievous of the sufferings of Christ, that he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself , and had snares laid for him by those that sought how to take him off with some pretence. In these verses, we have him attacked by the Pharisees and Herodians with a question about paying tribute to Caesar. Observe, I. What the design was, which they proposed to themselves; They…
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