22:15 當時，法利賽人出去商議，怎樣就著耶穌的話陷害他，
22:16 就打發他們的門徒同希律黨的人去見耶穌，說：「夫子，我們知道你是誠實人，並且誠誠實實傳上帝的道，甚麼人你都不徇情面，因為你不看人的外貌。
22:17 請告訴我們，你的意見如何？納稅給凱撒可以不可以？」
22:18 耶穌看出他們的惡意，就說：「假冒為善的人哪，為甚麼試探我？
22:19 拿一個上稅的錢給我看！」他們就拿一個銀錢來給他。
22:20 耶穌說：「這像和這號是誰的？」
22:21 他們說：「是凱撒的。」耶穌說：「這樣，凱撒的物當歸給凱撒；上帝的物當歸給上帝。」
22:22 他們聽見就希奇，離開他走了。
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
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希律黨黨員是希律王朝的御用黨，以及一班擁護者。他們融合希臘人與猶太教的教訓而宣稱彌賽亞的國度已應驗在希律王朝裡。他們見耶穌所傳屬靈天國的道與他們的利益相抵觸，就聯合猶太人圖謀害耶穌。
正如他們要讓主耶穌落入他們的圈套，就質問主耶穌：「夫子，我們知道你是誠實人，並且誠誠實實傳上帝的道，甚麼人你都不徇情面，因為你不看人的外貌。請告訴我們，你的意見如何？納稅給凱撒可以不可以？」
然而主耶穌用智慧將他們的詰問化解了，使他們啞口無言。
我們從主耶穌受到詰問的處理方式，學習到不要慌張，要等候聖靈的作為，聖靈必定會將合適的話語賜給我們，使我們可以靠主勝過那些故意刁難我們的人，正如主耶穌勝過一般！
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