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Next they sent some P'rushim and some members of Herod's party to him in order to trap him with a sh'eilah.
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They came and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you tell the truth and are not concerned with what people think about you, since you pay no attention to a person's status but really teach what God's way is. Does Torah say that taxes are to be paid to the Roman Emperor, or not?"
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But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you trying to trap me? Bring me a denarius so I can look at it."
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They brought one; and he asked them, "Whose name and picture are these?" "The Emperor's," they replied.
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Yeshua said, "Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give to God what belongs to God!" And they were amazed at him.
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Then some Tz'dukim came to him. They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurrection, so they put to him a sh'eilah:
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"Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man's family line.
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There were seven brothers. The first one took a wife, and when he died, he left no children.
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Then the second one took her and died without leaving children, and the third likewise,
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and none of the seven left children. Last of all, the woman also died.
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In the Resurrection, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife."