Luke 20:24
"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar’s.
In Context
23But He saw through their knavery and replied,
25"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."
Cross References
Matthew 20:2and having made an agreement with them for a shilling a day, sent them into his vineyard.
Mark 12:16They brought one; and He asked them, "Whose is this likeness and this inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied.
Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judaea, Herod Tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 23:2"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."
Acts 25:8But, in reply, Paul said, "Neither against the Jewish Law, nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar, have I committed any offence whatever."
Philippians 4:22All God's people here greet you--especially the members of Caesar's household.
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 →