[Footnote a: It was very common to test a Rabbi with hard questions. See this continued in the following sections. In like manner the Fourth Gospel gave us much animated dialogue between Jesus and the Jews at Jerusalem in chap. 5, and chap. 7-10. The Sanhedrin were within their rights in challenging the ecclesiastical and scholastic (scribal) standing of Jesus. He did not dodge in his answer.] [Footnote b: On this last day of Christ's public ministry the Sanhedrin seek to break the power of Jesus with the people whose hero he is since the Triumphal Entry. The first attempt fails miserably, but it is followed by a series of other efforts to entrap Jesus and so turn the crowd against him. The three parables leave the rulers exposed by Jesus and they keenly feel the denunciation of the reply of Jesus.] § 133. THE PHARISEES AND THE HERODIANS TRY TO ENSNARE JESUS ABOUT PAYING TRIBUTE TO CÆSAR Mark 12:13-17 |Matt. 22:15-22 |Luke 20:20-26 | | | |20 And they watched | | him, and sent | | forth spies, which | | feigned themselves | | to be righteous, 13 And they send unto|15 Then went the | that they might him certain of the | Pharisees, and took | take hold of his Pharisees and of the| counsel how they | speech, so as to Herodians, that they| might ensnare him in| deliver him up to might catch him in |16 _his_ talk. And they| the rule and to talk. | send to him their | the authority of 14 And when they | disciples,[a] with |21 the governor. And were come, they say | the Herodians, | they asked him, unto him, [1]Master,| saying, [1]Master, | saying, [1]Master, we know that thou | we know that thou | we know that thou art true, | art true, and | sayest and | teachest the way of | teachest rightly, and carest | God in truth, and | and acceptest not not for any one: for| carest not for any | the person _of thou regardest not | one: for thou | any_, but of a the person of men, | regardest not the | truth teachest the but of a truth |17 person of men. Tell | way of God [_see teachest the way of | us therefore, What | John 3:2_]: God: Is it lawful to| | give tribute unto | thinkest thou? Is it|22 Is it 15 Cæsar, or not? Shall| lawful to give | lawful for us to we give, or shall we| tribute unto Cæsar, | give tribute unto not give? But he, |18 or not? But Jesus |23 Cæsar, or not? But