Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
18 Jesus, however, was aware of their evil plan, and so he said, "You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?
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But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
19 Show me the coin for paying the tax!" They brought him the coin,
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Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
20 and he asked them, "Whose face and name are these?"
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and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 "The Emperor's," they answered. So Jesus said to them, "Well, then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and pay to God what belongs to God."
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“Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.
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When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
23 That same day some Sadducees came to Jesus and claimed that people will not rise from death.
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That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
24 "Teacher," they said, "Moses said that if a man who has no children dies, his brother must marry the widow so that they can have children who will be considered the dead man's children.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
25 Now, there were seven brothers who used to live here. The oldest got married and died without having children, so he left his widow to his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother.
26 The same thing happened to the second brother, to the third, and finally to all seven.
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The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
27 Last of all, the woman died.
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Finally, the woman died.
28 Now, on the day when the dead rise to life, whose wife will she be? All of them had married her."
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Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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