Mark 12:13 (WEB)
They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
Fathers and councils · 12
Theodoret of Cyrus
“Other innumerable stumbling blocks the enemy sets in men’s paths, trying to catch them to their ruin.” — editor's note: “ἀγρεύων.” cf. Mark xii. 13
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Augustine of Hippo
“Neither do these two evangelists differ in the matter of the order.” — editor's note: Mark xii. 13–27; Luke xx. 20–40.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
The Chief Priests though they sought to take Him, feared the multitude, and therefore they endeavored to effect what they could not do of themselves, by means of earthly powers, that they might themselves appear to…
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We have said elsewhere of the Herodians, that they were a certain new heresy, who said that Herod was the Christ, because the succession of the kingdom of Judah had failed. Others however say that the Herodians were…
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For they questioned Him with honied words, and they surrounded Him as bees, who carry honey in their mouth, but a sting in their tail.
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But this bland and crafty question was intended to induce Him in His answer rather to fear God than Caesar, and to say that tribute should not be paid, so that the Herodians immediately on hearing it might hold Him…
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So that thou wilt not honour Caesar, that is, against the truth. Therefore they add, “But teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give?” For…
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A denarius was a piece of money, accounted equal to ten smaller coins, and bearing the image of Caesar; wherefore there follows: “And He saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto…
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As if He had said, Give what bears an image to him whose image it bears, that is, the penny to Caesar; for we can both pay Caesar his tribute, and offer to God what is His own.
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That is, tithes, first-fruits, oblations, and victims. In the same way as He gave tribute both for Himself and Peter, He also gave to God the things that are God’s, doing the will of his Father.
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Render to Caesar the money bearing his image, which is collected for him, and render yourselves willingly up to God, for the light of thy countenance, O Lord [Ps 4:6], and not of Caesar’s, is stamped upon us.
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The inevitable wants of our bodies is as Caesar unto each of us; the Lord therefore orders that there should be given to the body its own, that is, food and raiment, and to God the things that are God’s. It goes on:…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 12:13–17 (2) (Catena Aurea).