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Narrative: Thy King Cometh

But he, knowing their hypocrisy, Jesus perceived their craftiness, and said unto them,
“Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money. Bring me a penny, that I may

see it.”
And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them,
“Whose is this image and superscription? Whose image and superscription hath it?”
They answered and said unto him,
“Cæsar’s.”

Then Jesus answering said unto them,
“Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that are
God’s.”
When they had heard these words, they could not take hold of his words before the people:

And they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace and left him, and went their way.
Then the same day came unto him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any
resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
“Master, Moses wrote unto us,
“If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and leave his wife behind him, and he die without

children, that his brother should marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
“Now there were with us therefore seven brethren: And the first, when he had married a wife,
died without children, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, took her to wife, neither
left he any seed: and he died childless. And the third likewise took her; and in like manner the seven

also: Had her, and they left no children, unto the seventh and died. Last of all the woman died also.
Therefore in the resurrection when they shall rise, whose wife of them shall she be} of the seven? For
the seven all had her to wife.”
And Jesus answering said unto them,
“Ye do err, do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of

God? The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: For in the resurrection they which
shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrecttion from the dead, when they shall

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