Matthew 22:21 · King James Version
Matthew 22:21 in the Original Greek
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Matthew 22:21 in Other Translations
| KJV | They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. |
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| WEB | They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” |
| ASV | They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. |
| YLT | they say to him, ‘Caesar’s;’ then saith he to them, ‘Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;’ |
| WBT | They say to him, Cesar's. Then saith he to them, Render therefore to Cesar, the things which are Cesar's; and to God, the things that are God's. |
| DBY | They say to him, Caesar's. Then he says to them, Pay then what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God. |
Commentary on Matthew 22:21
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen--So Mat 19:30. See on Mat 20:16.
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Questions about Matthew 22:21
What does Matthew 22:21 say?
Matthew 22:21 in the King James Version reads: “They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” Read it in the full context of Matthew 22, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Matthew 22:21 found in the Bible?
Matthew 22:21 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 22, verse 21, in the New Testament.
What Bible translation is Matthew 22:21 shown in?
This is the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation. You can compare how other translations render Matthew 22:21 in the table on this page.
These understanding that the former had not succeeded, came with a knotty question, with which they had often puzzled the Pharisees, and hoped they should nonplus Christ with it, showing the absurdity of the doctrine of the resurrection, an article which they denied; as it follows,
which say, that there is no resurrection of the dead: they denied that there were angels and spirits, and the immortality of the soul; they affirmed, that the soul died with the body, and that there was no future state: the rise of this sect, and of these notions of their's, was this, as the Jews relate (w).
"Antigonus, a man of Socho, used to say, be not as servants, that serve their master on account of receiving a reward, but be as servants that serve their master, not on account of receiving a reward; and let the fear of heaven (God) be upon you, so that your reward may be double in the world to come: this man had two disciples, who altered his words, and taught the disciples, and the disciples their disciples, and they stood and narrowly examined them, and said, what did our fathers see, to say this thing? Is it possible, that a labourer should work all day, and not take his reward at evening? But if our fathers had known that there is another world, and that there is , "a resurrection of the dead", they would not have said thus: they stood and separated from the law, and of them there were two parties, the Sadducees and Baithusites; the Sadducees on account of Sadoc, and the Baithusites on account of Baithus.''
The Syriac version reads, "and they said" and the Ethiopic version also, "saying, there is no resurrection of the dead"; taking the sense to be, that they at this time declared their sense of this doctrine, and according to a settled notion of their's, affirmed before Christ, that there was no such thing; that never any was raised from the dead, nor never will; and they were desirous of entering into a controversy with him about it:
and asked him; put the following question to him, in order to expose the weakness and absurdity of such a doctrine.
(w) Abot R. Nathan, c. 5. fol. 3. 1.