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Luke 20:24

Luke 20:24
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

That is, "to Jesus", as the Persic version expresses it; and it was the same day, as Matthew says, on which the disciples of the Pharisees, and the Herodians, had been with him, putting the question…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Luke 20:20-26

We have here Christ's evading a snare which his enemies laid for him, by proposing a question to him about tribute. We had this passage before, both in Matthew and Mark. Here is,

I. The mischief…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Shew me a penny A denarius. See on Luk 7:41. We see from Mar 12:15-16 that they were obliged to borrow the heathen coin from one of the tables of the money-changers. They would only carry Jewish money…