12:13 後來，他們打發幾個法利賽人和幾個希律黨的人到耶穌那裡，要就著他的話陷害他。
12:14 他們來了，就對他說：「夫子，我們知道你是誠實的，甚麼人你都不徇情面；因為你不看人的外貌，乃是誠誠實實傳上帝的道。納稅給凱撒可以不可以？
12:15 我們該納不該納？」耶穌知道他們的假意，就對他們說：「你們為甚麼試探我？拿一個銀錢來給我看！」
12:16 他們就拿了來。耶穌說：「這像和這號是誰的？」他們說：「是凱撒的。」
12:17 耶穌說：「凱撒的物當歸給凱撒，上帝的物當歸給上帝。」他們就很希奇他。
13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[b] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
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耶穌說：「凱撒的物當歸給凱撒，上帝的物當歸給上帝。」
馬丁路德因這段經文產生「兩國論」（http://ll1591.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post_98.html）；不過對加爾文而言，祂認為上帝的主權凌駕在國家的權柄之上，上帝是掌管一切的主！
所以，對主耶穌這段話，我們應該是看作為是主耶穌面對考驗的機智回應，不是基督徒要屈服於不義的政府，任其隨意對待百姓，要勇敢成為百姓之喉舌，好讓上帝的公義彰顯！
也因為如此，較為不可以逃避做「受苦記號」的責任，要勇敢為上帝的公義與不義的政府建言，即使要受牢獄與喪失生命，也在所不惜！保羅說：「我們若在他死的形狀上與他聯合，也要在他復活的形狀上與他聯合；…我們若是與基督同死，就信必與他同活。」（羅馬書6:5,8）
讓我們勇敢為真理而戰，在上帝國完全實現時，我們必要勝利歡呼！
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