020:020 So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent
spies who were to act the part of good and honest men,
that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand
Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.
020:021 So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said,
"we know that you say and teach what is right and that you
make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach
God's way truly.
020:022 Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"
020:023 But He saw through their knavery and replied,
020:024 "Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does
it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
020:025 "Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar—
and what is God's to God."
020:026 There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before
the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
020:027 Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there
is a Resurrection), and they asked Him,
020:028 "Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
020:029 Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.