Luke 20:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.”
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““Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Cæsar’s.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 20:24 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 18:28But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
- Matthew 20:2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
- Matthew 22:20“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”
- Mark 12:16So they brought it, and He asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.
- Luke 2:1Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
- Luke 3:1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
- Luke 20:22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
- Luke 23:2And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”
- Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- Acts 25:8Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”
- Acts 26:32And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
- Philippians 4:22All the saints send you greetings, especially those from the household of Caesar.
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