Rendering Caesar’s Due and God’s All (Mark 12:13–17)
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In Mark 12:13-17, Jesus encounters a calculated trap by the Pharisees and Herodians, who seek to incriminate him regarding the Roman poll tax. If Jesus approves the tax, he risks losing the crowd's favor; if he rejects it, he faces Roman charges of sedition. Set in Jerusalem during Tiberius Caesar's reign, the tax was a deeply offensive symbol of pagan foreign occupation. Unmasking their hypocrisy, Jesus commands them to bring him a denarius and asks whose image and inscription are on the coin. When they respond with…
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