And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
and he saith to them, `Whose is this image and the inscription?'
And he says to them, Whose [is] this image and superscription?
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
The walk5
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Luke 20:24“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
leads to
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
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,
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.)
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Voices5
(Verse 20) And Jesus said to them, Whose image is this and superscription? Those who think that this question indicates ignorance on the part of the Savior, and not dispensation, let them learn from the present passage that Jesus could certainly know whose image was on the coin; but he asks in order to respond appropriately to their words.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420patristic
And he saith unto them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Whose is this image and superscription? - He knew well enough whose they were; but he showed the excellency of his wisdom, 3dly, in making them answer to their own confusion. They came to ensnare our Lord in his discourse, and now they are ensnared in their own. He who digs a pit for his neighbor ordinarily falls into it himself.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The Herodians were a set of men peculiarly attached to Herod, and consequently zealous for the interest of the Roman government, which was the main support of the dignity and royalty of his family.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755evangelical
How happy is our constitution, and how happy we, who live in a nation where, though the image and superscription be the sovereign's, the property is the subject's, under the protection of the laws, and what we have we can call our own! Christ asked them, Whose image is this?
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches1
“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
