Mark 9:1-8
Jesus Takes 3 of His Disciples To a High Mountain
Mark 9:9-13
Three Disciples Question About The Transfiguration
Mark 9:14-29
The Disciples Are Helpless And Ineffective
Mark 9:30-37
Disciples Arguing About Who is The Greatest
Mark 9:38-50
Jesus Says Greatness Comes From Serving Others
Mark 10:1-12
Is it Lawful For a Man to Divorce His Wife?
Mark 10:13-22
Possessions Don’t Help You Obtain Eternal Life
Mark 10:23-31
Hard For The Rich to Enter The Kingdom of God
Mark 10:32-45
Willingness to Give Extra Service
Mark 10:46-52
Every Male Jew Must Attend Passover
Mark 11:1-11
Jesus Rides a Donkey Into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
Mark 11:12-18
Jesus Said The Temple is a Den of Thieves
Mark 11:19-26
Jesus Cursed The Fig Tree And it Dried Up
Mark 11:27-33
Jesus Questioned on His Authority
Mark 12:1-12
Jesus Tells About The Owner Of a Vineyard
Mark 12:13-17
Pharisees Ask Jesus About Paying Poll Tax
Mark 12:18-27
Whose Wife Shall She Be in The Resurrection?
Mark 12:28-34
“You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.”
Mark 12:35-44
Jesus Makes Charges Against The Scribes
Mark 13:1-13
Prediction of “The Time of Tribulation”
Mark 13:14-23
False Teachers in The End Times
Mark 13:24-32
A Description of The Second Coming
Mark 13:33-37
We Must Not be Found Sleeping
Mark 14:1-9
Jesus Anointed With Perfume
Mark 14:10-16
Judas Arranges For Jesus Betrayal
Mark 14:17-26
Lord’s Supper Replaces The Passover
Mark 14:27-31
Peter’s Heart Was in The Right Place
Mark 14:32-42
Jesus in The Garden of Gethsemane
Mark 14:43-52
Judas’ Arrival to Betray Jesus
Mark 14:53-65
Jesus is Brought Before The Sanhedrin
Mark 14:66-72
Peter Denies His Lord Three Times
Mark 15:1-5
Jesus is Brought Before Pontius Pilate
Mark 15:6-15
Barabbas is Released
Mark 15:16-23
Simon Commanded to Carry The Cross
Mark 15:24-32
Jesus is Nailed to The Cross
Pharisees Ask Jesus About Paying Poll Tax
Mark 12:13–17
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A little boy wanted $100 very badly. He prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. So, he decided to write a letter to God requesting $100. When the postal authorities received the letter to “God, USA”, they decided to send it to the President. The President was so amused … More
Herod the Great ruled all of Palestine as a Roman King. When he died in 4 B.C. his kingdom was divided into three parts of which Archelaus was given Judea and Samaria. He was a failure and in 6 A.D. the Romans stepped in and made Cyrenius governor with direct rule. This placed them under Tiberias who was the reigning emperor and all emperors were called Caesar.
It was under this system that the Jewish Sanhedrin sent a delegation of Pharisees and Herodians to ask Jesus a catch question (v. 13). “Is it lawful to give tribute (pay a poll tax) to Caesar or not” (v. 14)? They thought they had Him trapped. If He said no, they would report Him to the Roman authorities as a dangerous teacher who was trying to turn the people against the government. If He said yes they would tell the people that He was not really for them, but was selling them out to foreign oppression. Either way He would be in trouble.
Instead of answering them He asked for a coin and asked them a question, “Whose image is on this coin” (vv. 15-16)? When they said,” Caesar’s” He said, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s” (v. 17). He was teaching that we owe something to the government for the protection that it gives us, but at the same time God created us in his own image (Gen. 1:26-27) and therefore, we belong to Him and owe Him our loyalty. The inevitable conclusion is that, if the state remains within its proper boundaries and makes its proper demands, the individual must give it his loyalty and his service. But in the last analysis both state and man belong to God, and therefore should their claims conflict, loyalty to God comes first.
Application
I need to make sure that God is getting what I owe Him. Then I need to have each person in my family make a list of both the things that belong to God and the things which belong to Caesar?
Mark 12:13-17 (English Standard Version)
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