Broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Holy Week - Holy Wednesday\n Matthew 22:17-21\n 04\/16\/2025\n\n\n 17 ``Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to\n pay taxes to Caesar, or not?''\n 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, ``Why put\n me to the test, you hypocrites?\n 19 Show me the coin for the tax.'' And they brought\n him a denarius.\n 20 And Jesus said to them, ``Whose likeness and\n inscription is this?''\n 21 They said, ``Caesar's.'' Then he said to them,\n ``Therefore render to Caesar the things that are\n Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.''\n (ESV)\n\n Although the Gospels are silent about the activities of\n Jesus and His disciples on Wednesday of Holy Week, the rulers of\n the Temple were still upset over Him avoiding their verbal traps.\n Their verbal contest simply added to the desire of the chief\n priests to put Jesus to death. Judas, the one who betrayed\n Jesus, may have made his deal with the chief priests either on\n Wednesday or Thursday.\n\n One of the questions asked by the Pharisees in an attempt to\n discredit Jesus concerned taxes paid to Rome. If Jesus said,\n ``Pay taxes,'' He could be considered a traitor to the Jewish\n people. If Jesus said, ``Don't pay taxes,'' He could be accused\n of usurping the Roman authority.\n\n ``Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay\n taxes to Caesar, or not?'' But Jesus, aware of their\n malice, said, ``Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?\n Show me the coin for the tax.'' And they brought him a\n denarius. And Jesus said to them, ``Whose likeness and\n inscription is this?'' They said, ``Caesar's.'' Then\n he said to them, ``Therefore render to Caesar the\n things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that\n are God's.''\n\n\n Other groups tried different questions to besmirch Jesus'\n reputation in the sight of the people. Each group failed. Jesus\n clearly proclaimed the truth of God's Word. Therefore Matthew\n recorded, ``Nor from that day did anyone dare to ask Him any more\n questions.[1]\n\n May the truth of God's Word, may the truth of Jesus'\n teaching, continue to guide us as we hold to Him in faith. Amen.\n ____________________\n\n 1. Matthew 22:46<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 16, 2025 Broadcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turn-your-radio-on-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}