Whose Image Is This?

Jesus Answers Traps and Teaches · Mark 12

Story guide: Jesus holds up a single coin between questioners in the temple court. This shared image is not a scene-for-scene rendering of Mark 12:13-17.

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13And they send to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, so that they might trap him by a word.

14And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not care about anyone, for you do not look at the face of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay the poll tax to Caesar or not? Should we pay it, or should we not pay it?”

15But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I may see it.”

16And they brought one. And he says to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?” And they said to him, “Caesar’s.”

17But Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.

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