MATTHEW 22:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“They say unto him, Cesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away. The marveling and departure communicates the failure of the trap: the answer was so brilliant that the questioners could not press further without looking foolish. The going away is the recognition that the entangling strategy has failed.
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