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18 But knowing that these leaders were trying to trick him, Jesus 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 a coin used for paying the tax." So the men showed him a coin.
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Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,
20 Then Jesus asked, "Whose image and name are on the coin?"
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and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 The men answered, "Caesar's." Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and give to God the things that 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 When the men heard what Jesus said, they were amazed and 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 asked him a question. (Sadducees believed that people would not rise from the dead.)
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That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
24 They said, "Teacher, Moses said if a married man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him.
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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 Once there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died. Since he had no children, his brother married the widow.
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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 Then the second brother also died. The same thing happened to the third brother and all the other brothers.
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The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh.
27 Finally, the woman died.
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Finally, the woman died.
28 Since all seven men had married her, when people rise from the dead, whose wife will she be?"
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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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