The Gospel of Mark : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . mpt ye me ? Why en-tice me to say something which youcan use against me? Why do 30U tryto draw me into a snare, so as to entrajjme? Then, instead of answering asthey exjiected, he calls f^)r a coin inwhich the Roman tax was Jiaid, so thathe might address the eye as well as theear. A penny; </ dtiicir)/, a Romansilver coin, wortli about fifteen was a current maxim of Jewishteachers, that wherever a kings coinis current, there bis sovereignty is ac-knowledged. It was
The Gospel of Mark : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . mpt ye me ? Why en-tice me to say something which youcan use against me? Why do 30U tryto draw me into a snare, so as to entrajjme? Then, instead of answering asthey exjiected, he calls f^)r a coin inwhich the Roman tax was Jiaid, so thathe might address the eye as well as theear. A penny; </ dtiicir)/, a Romansilver coin, wortli about fifteen was a current maxim of Jewishteachers, that wherever a kings coinis current, there bis sovereignty is ac-knowledged. It was an evidence ofthe Roman domiuiou over the land, 228 MARK XII. 30. 16 me a penny, that I may see it. And they broughtit. And he saith unto them, Whose is this imageand superscription ? And they said unto him, 17 Cassars. And Jesus answering said unto them, ?^ Render to Caesar the things that are Ctesars, and to Mt. ; 17,25-God tlie things that are Gods. And they mar- ^^ ^^- ^- ^•veiled at him. that Roman currency was used ; and,by using it, the Jews acknowledj;ecltheir subjeciiou to the Roniau ROMAN DENARIUS. Jesns also adds, that I may see it, as if he would for the first time handleand examine the coin. But he wasabout to teach an object-lesson from it,and he wishes to see it so as to directattention specially to it. 1(5. They brought it. We mayconceive of Jesu> receiving it, and fora moment looking at it and holding itin his hand, tlius riveting attention andexciting expectation ; and then is this image and super-scription ? or Tlie imaf/ewas probably the likeness of the Ro-man emperor, Tiberius CiBsar. Theiuscrlptioii was the motto of the coin,the title of the emperor, declarative ofhis sovereignty. The image showedthat it was not a Jewish, but a foreigncoin, for the Jews put no imnges ontheir coins, though they put inscrip-tions on them. Caesars. Both thecoin and tlieir answer showed that theywere peacefully submitting to Ca
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