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? Let me see some of the tax money!" They brought to him a piece of silver, a Roman coin. 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 Cæsar, and those words are his title." "Well, then," said Jesus, "give to Cæsar what belongs to Cæsar; and be sure to give to God what belongs to God." There was nothing in that answer which they could make to appear either unfriendly or friendly to the Roman rule; nor yet was there anything that could be used against Jesus with the people. Wondering at the answer of Jesus, these men left him. [Illustration: Jewish half-shekel, the coin in which the Temple tax was paid--"tribute money" (Matt. 17:27)--value, 32 cents] The Woman with Seven Husbands CHAPTER 78 WE HAVE heard much in the story, of the Pharisees, who were looked upon as leaders of the people in religion, because they regularly went to church, 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 everywhere stirred up the people against him. But there was another party among the Jews, the Sadducees, whom we have not mentioned up to this time. These people were equally opposed to the Pharisees and to Jesus. They were easy-living men, not paying much attention to the church rules; and in fact not going often to the church, which you know was called "the synagogue." But although they cared little for the churches in the different towns, they cared greatly for the Temple in Jerusalem, for most of the priests in the Temple were Sadducees, as also were many of the rulers in the great council of the Jews. The Sadducees did not believe that there was any soul in man, nor any life after this life, nor any angels, nor any rising from the dead hereafter, nor any heaven or hell. They believed that when a man died and was buried, that was his end forever. Some of these Sadducees tried to puzzle Jesus with a question. They came to him in the Temple that Tuesday while he was speaking to the people.