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Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"
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But He saw through their knavery and replied,
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"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.
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"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."
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There was nothing here that they could lay hold of before the people, and marvelling at His answer they said no more.
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Next some of the Sadducees came forward (who deny that there is a Resurrection), and they asked Him,
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"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.
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Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.
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The second and the third also took her;
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and all seven, having done the same, left no children when they died.
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Finally the woman also died.