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Mark 12:13-27

Render unto Caesar

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Render unto Caesar

Mark 12:13-27

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This song belongs to the Mark collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Mark
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Mark
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[Verse 1 - the trap] They sent Pharisees and Herodians to catch him in his words: Master, we know that thou art true and carest for no man. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, Or shall we not give? [Refrain - the penny] Why tempt ye me? Bring me a penny. Whose is this image and superscription? Caesar's, they answered. Render to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's. [Verse 2 - seven brothers] Then came the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection. Seven brethren took one wife in turn and left no seed. In the resurrection, whose wife shall she be? For the seven had her to wife. [Bridge - ye do greatly err] Do ye not therefore err, Because ye know not the scriptures nor the power of God? When they rise, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, But are as the angels which are in heaven. [Outro - the bush] Have ye not read how God spoke unto Moses: I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, But the God of the living.

Named in this songMosesAbrahamIsaacJacob

About the passage

Mark 12: Questions reveal both resistance and recognition

Mark 12 turns the temple conflict into a sequence of parables, traps, genuine questions, and unsettling observations. The vineyard tenants mistake possession for ownership and kill the beloved son, only for the rejected stone to become the head of the corner. Pharisees and Herodians try to trap Jesus over tribute, while Sadducees construct a resurrection puzzle whose assumptions he rejects. Then a scribe approaches differently, recognizes a good answer, and hears that love of God and neighbor outranks sacrifice. Jesus himself raises the question of how David's son can also be David's Lord. The chapter ends by moving from religious honor to a poor widow's two mites. After warning against scribes who devour widows' houses, Jesus makes her entire living the measure that matters. Small coins become a large question because Mark measures cost, not display.

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