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They put to him this sh'eilah: "Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God's way is.
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Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?"
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But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them,
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"Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?" "The Emperor's," they replied.
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"Then," he said to them, "give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!"
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They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.
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Some Tz'dukim, who say there is no resurrection, came to Yeshua
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and put to him a sh'eilah: "Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died child less,
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and third took her, and likewise all seven, but they all died without leaving children.