Luke 20:24 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 20:24

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Cæsar’s.

KJV

Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.

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Commentary

3 voices

Justin Martyr

The First Apology, Chapter XVII (165)

And everywhere we, more readily than all men, endeavour to pay to those appointed by you the taxes both ordinary and extraordinary, as we have been taught by Him; for at that time some came to Him and asked Him, if one ought to pay tribute to Caesar; and He answered, "Tell Me, whose image does the coin bear?" And they said, "Caesar's." And again He answered them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 9.35 (397)

When they questioned him about the penny, he asks about the image, because there is one image of God and another image of the world. The apostle also admonishes us, "As we have borne the image of the earthly, let us bear also the image of the heavenly." Christ does not have the image of Caesar, because he is the image of God. Peter does not have the image of Caesar, because he said, "We have left all things, and have followed you."

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Show me a penny,.... A Roman denarius, value seven pence halfpenny of our money.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

Let us mark, for one thing, in this passage — the cloak of goodness under which some of our Lord's enemies approached Him. We read that "they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Him in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor." We read further that they attempted to trick Him by flattering words, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality — but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth."

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δείξατέ	deixate	do show	G1166 →
μοι	moi	Me	G3165 →
δηνάριον·	dēnarion	a denarius;	G1220 →
τίνος	tinos	Of whom	G5101 →
ἔχει	echei	has it	G2192 →
εἰκόνα	eikona	[the] image	G1504 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐπιγραφήν;	epigraphēn	inscription?	G1923 →
οἱ	hoi	Those	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπαν·	eipan	they said;	G2036 →
Καίσαρος.	Kaisaros	Caesar’s.	G2541 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 2:1
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
leads to
- Luke 3:1
  In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Luke 3:1
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
leads to
- Luke 2:1
  Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 23:6–11
  When Pilate heard this, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
- Genesis 49:10
  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Acts 4:27
  In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
- Mark 6:17
  For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.
Through
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
leads to
- Acts 21:10
  After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Through
Acts 26:32
And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
leads to
- Acts 28:18
  They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke