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Cycle A Thes. 1: 1-5 22 October 2017
Mt. 22: 15-21
INTRODUCTION:
Our Gospel for today
contains one of
Jesus' greatest one
liners: "Then give
to Caesar what is
Caesar's and to
God what is
God's." (v. 21)
INTRODUCTION:
This rejoinder has inspired an
enormous amount of controversy over
the centuries. Before going to the
controversies, let me first deal about the
context of this saying of Jesus.
1 As we may have noticed in
MT's Gospel over these past
several weeks, the Pharisees
and Jesus have been getting
at each others' back.
1
In the ultimate
scheme of things,
everything
belongs to God,
the Creator,
including Caesar!
3
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