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New International Version NIV
22 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
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Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
23 But He perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test Me?
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He saw through their duplicity and said to them,
24 Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" They answered and said, "Caesar's."
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“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?”“Caesar’s,” they replied.
25 And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
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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 But they could not catch Him in His words in the presence of the people. And they marveled at His answer and kept 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 Then some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is a resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
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Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.
28 saying: "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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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. And the first took a wife, and died without children.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
30 And the second took her as wife, and he died childless.
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The second
31 Then the third took her, and in like manner the seven also; and they left no children, and died.
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and then the third married her, and in the same way the seven died, leaving no children.
32 Last of all the woman died also.
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Finally, the woman died too.
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