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Luke 20:24

Contemporary English Version 1995

“Show me a coin.” Then he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?” “The Emperor's,” they answered.

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But as this official was leaving, he happened to meet another official, who owed him 100 silver coins. So he grabbed the man by the throat. He started choking him and said, “Pay me what you owe!”

All of God's people send their greetings, especially those in the service of the Emperor.

Agrippa told Festus, “Paul could have been set free, if he had not asked to be tried by the Roman Emperor.”

One of them was Agabus. Then with the help of the Spirit, he told that there would be a terrible famine everywhere in the world. And it happened when Claudius was Emperor.

They started accusing him and said, “We caught this man trying to get our people to riot and to stop paying taxes to the Emperor. He also claims that he is the Messiah, our king.”

Tell us, should we pay taxes to the Emperor or not?”

For 15 years Emperor Tiberius had ruled that part of the world. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was the ruler of Galilee. Herod's brother, Philip, was the ruler in the countries of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the ruler of Abilene.

About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books.

After he had agreed to pay them the usual amount for a day's work, he sent them off to his vineyard.

and he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?”

Jesus knew they were trying to trick him. So he told them,

Then he told them, “Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God.”

They brought him a silver coin, and he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?” “The Emperor's,” they answered.




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