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https://www.truthforlife.org — Known for their strict legalistic devotion to religious traditions, the Pharisees cornered Jesus with a politically charged qu...
https://www.truthforlife.org — Does God command believers to pay taxes? When the Pharisees cornered Jesus with this thorny question, did He side with the go...
"Render to Caesar what is Caesar's" has found its way outside church walls. Jesus' opponents hope to trap him... This passage from Matthew 22:15-22 is familiar.
Render Unto Caesar is a timeless, fast-paced and deeply felt romantic thriller set in first century Rome. It seems to be about a man trying to get an important politician to pay his legal debts, but it's actually about a life-or-death struggle of the Roman West and the Greek East, rendered in exquisite miniature.
- The Idea of Empire
- Questioning Slave Parables
- Owed Loyalty
But the story isn't really about taxes. Or rather, if it's about taxes, it's also about empire. "Jesus is not unaware of the game that they [the Pharisees and Herodians] are playing," says Warren Carter, of Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Okla. "And the hypocrisy, of course, is that they are going to produce the coin, which Jesus doesn't ha...
Jesus also uses other concepts connected to empire. Slavery, for one. In the Gospel of Matthew, he tells numerous stories, or parables, that take slaves as their subjects, and play out ideas of the Kingdom or Empire of God. 'Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their a...
There is the story as we find it in the Bible, and then there is the story behind the story. In contemporary biblical scholarship, the 'making of' is just as important as the tale itself. A few years ago, when Warren Carter was covering Mark's "Render unto Caesar" passage in Greek translation class, he noticed that the famous saying was formulated ...
Jesus’ actual answer is a brilliant evasion of the snare that his antagonists have laid for him. Instead of saying “yes” or “no” to their question, he says, “Show me the money for the tax” (Matthew 22:18; Mark 12:15; Luke 20:24). They oblige by bringing him a coin.
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