. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . x, which wasa sign of the Roman power over them; and everyman among them only paid it because he wasafraid of the Roman governor and the arfje ?|eab on t\)t Coin But Jesus saw through all their plots and plans,and he had his answer ready. You men of false heart, pretending to be honest!he said, why do you try to catch me in a snare? Letme see some of the tax money! They brought to him a piece of silver, a Romancoin. He looked at it closely and then asked: Whose head is this that I find upon the coin?What are the words around the
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . x, which wasa sign of the Roman power over them; and everyman among them only paid it because he wasafraid of the Roman governor and the arfje ?|eab on t\)t Coin But Jesus saw through all their plots and plans,and he had his answer ready. You men of false heart, pretending to be honest!he said, why do you try to catch me in a snare? Letme see some of the tax money! They brought to him a piece of silver, a Romancoin. He looked at it closely and then asked: Whose head is this that I find upon the coin?What are the words around the edge? Why, that is the head of the Roman emperor,Tiberius Caesar, and those words are his title. Well, then, said Jesus, give to Caesar whatbelongs to Caesar; and be sure to give to God whatbelongs to God. There was nothing in that answer which they couldmake to appear either unfriendly or friendly to theRoman rule; nor yet was there anything that could beused against Jesus with the people. Wondering at theanswer of Jesus, these men left Jewish half-shekel, the coin in which the Temple tax was paid—tribute money (Matt. 17:27)— value, 32 cents 881 CHAPTER 78 WE HAVE heard much in the story, of the Pharisees,who were looked upon as leaders of the peoplein religion, because they regularl} went tochurch, paid the church dues and obeyed all the rules,foolish as some of those rules seemed. These Pharisees,as you know, were bitter enemies of Jesus, and every-where stirred up the people against him. But there was another party among the Jews, theSadducees, whom we have not mentioned up to thistime. These people were equally opposed to the Phariseesand to Jesus. They were easy-living men, not pacingmuch attention to the church rules; and in fact not goingoften to the church, which you know was called ^thesynagogue. But although they cared little for thechurches in the different towns, they cared greatly forthe Temple in Jerusalem, for most of the priests in theTemple were Sadd
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