Luke 20:24
“Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
In Context
23Seeing through their deceitfulness, Jesus said to them,
Cross References
Matthew 20:2He agreed with the laborers to pay them the standard daily rate of two silver coins, and sent them into his vineyard.
Mark 12:16And, when they had brought it, he asked, “Whose head and title are these?” “The Emperor’s,” they said;
Luke 3:1In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip ruler of the territory comprising Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,
Luke 23:2And they began to accuse him, “This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is ‘Christ, a king.’”
Acts 25:8Paul’s answer to the charge was – ‘I have not committed any offense against the Jewish Law, or the Temple, or the Emperor.’
Philippians 4:22All Christ’s people here, and especially those who belong to the Emperor’s household, send theirs.
Matthew Henry on Luke 20:21-27
Christ's Enemies Nonplussed. 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. 21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: 22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Cæsar, or no? 23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why… Read the whole commentary →