The Bible in Basic English BBE
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18 But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?
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But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
19 Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.
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Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
20 And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?
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and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.
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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 And hearing it, they were full of wonder, and went away from him.
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When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
23 On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,
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That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
24 Master, Moses said, If a man, at the time of his death, has no children, let his brother take his wife, and get a family for his brother;
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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 among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife 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 In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.
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The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
27 And last of all the woman came to her end.
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Finally, the woman died.
28 When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had 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?”
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