Luke 20:20-40

Paying Taxes to Caesar

20 And they watched [him] closely [and] sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor.

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.

22 Is it permitted [for] us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

23 But seeing through their craftiness, he said to them,

24 "Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they answered [and] said, "Caesar's."

25 So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!"

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.

A Question About Marriage and the Resurrection

27 Now some of the Sadducees--who deny {that there is a resurrection}--came up [and] asked him,

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.

29 Now there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife [and] died childless,

30 and the second,

31 and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died.

32 Finally the woman also died.

33 Therefore in the resurrection, the woman--whose wife will she be? For the seven had her [as] wife."

34 And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and [to] the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,

36 for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, [because they] are sons of the resurrection.

37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in [the passage about] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and [the] God of Isaac and [the] God of Jacob.

38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!"

39 And some of the scribes answered [and] said, "Teacher, you have spoken well."

40 For they no longer dared to ask him anything.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [b]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("watched closely") has been translated as a finite verb
• [c]. Literally "receive face"
• [d]. Or "the tribute tax"
• [e]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb
• [f]. Some manuscripts have "And they said"
• [g]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [h]. Some manuscripts explicitly state "him"
• [i]. Literally "resurrection not to exist"
• [j]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("came up") has been translated as a finite verb
• [k]. Literally "raise up"
• [l]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb
• [m]. *Here "[because]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("are") which is understood as causal
• [n]. *The words "[the passage about]" are not in the Greek text but are implied; here a common form of rabbinic citation is being used to refer to an Old Testament passage
• [o]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb