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21 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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So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.
22 Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?"
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Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
23 But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them,
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He saw through their duplicity and said to them,
24 "Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?" "The Emperor's," they replied.
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“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”“Caesar’s,” they replied.
25 "Then," he said to them, "give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!"
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He said to them, “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
26 They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.
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They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent.
27 Some Tz'dukim, who say there is no resurrection, came to Yeshua
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Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
28 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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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife and died child less,
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Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
30 then the second
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The second
31 and third took her, and likewise all seven, but they all died without leaving children.
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and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
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