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Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no?
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But he, considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me?
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Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him: Caesar’s.
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And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things, that are Caesar’s: and to God the things that are God’s.
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And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace.
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And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection: and they asked him,
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Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us: If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife and raise up seed unto his brother.
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There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife and died without children.
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And the next took her to wife: and he also died childless.
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And the third took her. And in like manner, all the seven: and they left no children and died.
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Last of all the woman died also.