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21 And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not {show partiality}, but teach the way of God in truth.
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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 Is it permitted [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 seeing through their craftiness, he said to them,
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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?" And 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 So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of 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 And they were not able to catch [him] in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became 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 Now some of the Sadducees--who deny {that there is a resurrection}--came up [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 for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and {father} descendants 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 childless,
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Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless.
30 and the second,
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The second
31 and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died.
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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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