Talk:Render unto Caesar

message: Science vs Religion is perhaps the most significant meaning of this quote, and not mentioned at all on this Wiki page. Very important and potentially useful distinction. -Eric Higley
:It is perhaps significant that Jesus did not have such a coin with him but that one of his questioners did.
John 12:4-6 may shed some light on that; Judas Iscariot carried the money bag, not Jesus. – Tintazul msg 11:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perhaps significant... 

message: Why is the translation of the line in Latin, when the original was in Greek?
:I came here to ask the same thing. The relevant Greek portion of 22:21 is Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ. (Apodote oun ta Kaisaros Kaisari kai ta tou theou tôi theôi.)—Wasabe3543 18:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin? 

message: It covers everything anyone who came to this article could hope to find. Someone should nominate it. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.208.51 (talk • contribs) 
:I agree with the anonymous comment above, and have nominated this as a Good Article on their suggestion. Terraxos 14:59, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is extremely well-done 

message: This page does not meet the GA criteria for sourcing, among other things. Much of the text, including interpretations of the story and controversial claims, are unsourced and have no inline citations. The editors need to spend some time reading WP:V so that they understand what needs to be sourced. Also, the page does not unfold in as logical a manner as one could hope. The editors need to put themselves in the position of a reader who is unfamiliar with the material. Finally, at times the page begins to takes on a POV and a tone of colloquial writing rather than a neutral, encyclopedic tone. On pages about religious topics, it is especially important to retain as much neutrality as possible. 
If you have any questions about this review, please leave a note on my talk page. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 18:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA quick fail 

message: Much of Render_unto_Caesar...#Interpretations is original research and the authors seems to be interpreting the New Testament. It needs to be sourced, and if necessary, attributed.Bless sins (talk) 05:02, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research

message: First time looking at this page, but I don't agree that the denarius in question was "doubly" blasphemous.  How does it qualify as a "graven image"?  I thought graven images referred to objects intended to be worshipped, not just any old picture.  Tiberius certainly did not expect anyone to worship his denarii.  Revising this .... Scrutchfield (talk) 21:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graven image? 

message: The fact that the charge went undisputed at Christ’s trial doesn't necessarily mean anything. The trial was full of false accusations that went unattested. -Alan Trick (talk) 16:47, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christ’s Trial is a poor support 

message: The section on "benefits if people had followed Jesus" on this question needs, AT LEAST, some citations and supporting evidence.  It is widely wide in scope and presumptuous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.20.175.108 (talk) 04:10, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benefits 

message: The truth is that Jesus acknowledges the exsistance and uses of government on earth. As people of faith though our job is to give to God what is God's. We are the lambs of God and therefore we must render our prayers to him and let God convert our souls to him. We render ourselves to him. These machines and systems that are created to control people are only going to change when we all render to him the prayers that allow God to truly take over all systems that we as humans create. For example there is a cross in the city that is on government property. There are millions of dollars used in defense of this cross but where is the conversion of heart that must do daily as Christians and people of God. What good is a cross when we do not carry our own cross with love and sacrifice for others. Let the atheist and non-believers take down the cross when our duty is to pray for those that do not believe. We give to God those prayers and the immersion of that love will over flow and over come those that do not believe. We get so stubborn about small issues when the bigger issue is flying away in front of our eyes. Our house is burning and we are worried about our possesions. Let us see beyond the possesion and pray that our Lord gives us the strength to carry our cross in a loving and sacrificial way as he did. Jesus saw how miniscule that coin was and thought, "If they only know how small this coin is compared to what I have in store for them." Lets give those coins to Caesar because God is a treasure that has an infinite amount of more importance. Sometime we see our children drop a candy and they cry. In our minds we sympathize with them but we know we have much more to give them and in the long run that piece of candy means so little. In the eternal love of God though he has compassion for us and tries to explain how meanless Caesar's thing are. God I love you and thank you for your love and the things that belong to you.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by LOKOIN (talk • contribs) 00:59, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Give way to what is the Truth. 

message: Consensus of Tax within the Roman Empire
Problems with monetary funding: Basically the qualms about cash flow
I have a few I noticed.  I live with my mother because of the adam and eve situation
the roman empire is giving to its citizens.  The tax of utilities and bills.  Basically,
I am a nature born resident, whom rely on such instead of the nameless faces upon which I
give monetary funds to.  These aren't really problems, just exagerated complaints really.
First, why should I pay for technology that already exists.  Eg plumbing and waterways.  This should 
be free or have a very small tax yearly to support the technology.  Water should be free basically.
Second, trash deposal services should not be free, it takes man-power to dispose of trash, but electricity
should once again be free or a yearly small tax.  Electricity takes small amounts of energy per household but
can also be free if the right technology is available to its residents.  Eg why pay for a computer without the
right software?  Technology causes many problems, when not available but is a source of free energy.  
Third, college loans should be free or reduced if the degree is not used, food should not be free.  Food should be
payed for somehow but at an option for the poor.  They should be able to buy easily manufactured foods with low 
monetary value eg a 10 cent can of soup if they need.  Foodstamps are an option, but only for the
disabled not the suffering and poor communities.  Food is a staple of life and a certain amount a week to sustain that
life should be given.  Housing and shelter of course should be free if obtained.  The public sector such as the roads 
should be free until a new technology arrives.  The pavement is a crude akward backwards step to the roman style roads.
Like I said, if the technology is there it should be free or really cheap.  I find it interesting that africans care nothing about the roman way of life we live today because of there untouched culture and non-relation to slavic-european history.  Why pay for the cow when you can just eat the beans.  Waste of energy and the life of a cow.
--69.255.42.105 (talk) 17:33, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roman Tax 

message: I edited a line that says "Jesus showed compassion for tax collectors as he did to other notorious sinners, such as prostitutes." If a wikipedia article said "prostitutes are notorious sinners" or just "prostitutes are sinners," I think that would qualify as non-neutral POV, and that is what this sentence assumes. I changed "notorious sinners" to "vilified groups", which I think is less NNPOV and more accurate. Still, I'm not sure sentence adds anything at all to the article.98.192.38.248 (talk) 03:41, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Prostitutes are notorious sinners" 

message: I plan to delete the entire section headed "Doctrinal context," along with the sub-heading, "Further information: Pharisees and Christianity." The information in the main paragraph is manifestly erroneous. By no means does the sole reference provided therein support the intendment of this interpretation, which has no support whatsoever anywhere else within any of the canonical or extracaonnonical gospels. The author(s) of this passage says, "Jesus was asked the question about paying taxes in hope that he would answer "yes" or "no"." This statement is patently false. The render-unto-Caesar incident is recorded in all three synoptic gospels, Matthew 22, Mark 12, and Luke 20. The purpose of asking Jesus whether or not it was lawful, according to God's law, to pay Caesar's tax (in Matthew, Mark and Luke), and whether or not to pay the tax (in Mark only), is not stated in Matthew or Mark, perhaps by ellipsis because the purpose of the questions is evident from the context of all three gospels. However, it is stated unequivocally in the gospel of Luke, thus: "Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be sincere. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said, so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor."http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2020:19-30&version=NIV;NASB;KJV;NKJV;ASV The governor was Pontius Pilate. As procurator or prefect, Pilate was responsible to Caesar (Rome) for the collection of Roman taxes in Judea.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate Asking the question whether or not to pay Caesar's tax for the stated intention of turning Jesus over to Pilate unquestionably proves that the questioners of Jesus anticipated one response and one only. They expected he would answer, "No, it is not lawful. Don't pay it!" They obviously knew he wouldn't endorse Caesar tax, for that answer would not give them cause to turn Jesus over to the authority of Pilate. The point I am making is further supported by the fact that when the religious authorities a few days later did in fact take Jesus by force and turn him over to Pilate for prosecution, one of the charges they made against him was, "'We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar...He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee(F) and has come all the way here.'"http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2023:1-10&version=NIV;NASB;KJV;NKJV;ASV Furthermore, it is demeaning to the character of Jesus to suggest that he would avoid answering the question(s) in the affirmative for any reason whatsoever if he believed that Caesar's tax was in accord with God's law and should be paid. Jesus was a man of impeccable integrity. The author of this erroneous section says, "Answering "yes" would have left him open to the accusation that he was in opposition to Jewish resistance to the Roman occupation and therefore (given the assumption by the Jews that they still held privileged nation status with God at this time) against God, too." Throughout the gospels Jesus demonstrated time and again that he had no fear whatsoever of any of the many (false) accusations made against him by the chief priests, Pharisees or any others. He had previously and frequently bested these adversaries,' refuted their accusations, and left them with egg on their collective faces. He most certainly wouldn't avoid answering in the affirmative if that is what he believed. Everything else in this paragraph is negated by this false interpretation of what his enemies had in mind in asking his opinion on Caesar's tax.  Signed, Ned Netterville. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.53.227.101 (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there are all sorts of problems with the section. There is only one reference, and that from 1839. Also, the text doesn't really match up with the heading. The bit about "in opposition to Jewish resistance to the Roman occupation and therefore against God, too" sounds like somebody's personal opinion/original research. StAnselm (talk) 20:11, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Doctrinal context

message: It doesn't seem to me that Jesus' answer was ambiguous regarding whether the tribute should be paid or the tax resisted. His point, it seems to me, is that the question they pose pose to him is predicated on misunderstanding. It is only a dilemma to those who are not (fully) following God. For those living in the way that Jesus prescribed there is no tribute to pay to Caesar or tax to resist. Those things only emerge to the extent one subscribes to Caesar, i.e. the state and its money. One should not participate, but to the extent one does participate then one should pay the tax as the expected costs of doing so. How could his answer have been any more clear?  Likewise I think the most direct interpretation of the line is that he who would follow Jesus' way avoids this dilemma by being outside the state and not using its money. Since this seems the simplest possible interpretation, I wonder why it seems to be missing from those discussed on this page?  And, in this interpretation the fact that Jesus does not have the coin is quite relevant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.237.4.41 (talk) 17:30, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity and Interpretations 

message: I'm just curious why this exchange is being referred to as a parable?--209.7.195.158 (talk) 13:30, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parable? 

message: It seems mostly to be trivia of the most trivial sort, and adds little or nothing that throws any light on the topic. —Moorlock (talk) 04:23, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed and done. Daask (talk) 17:11, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone else think the "In popular culture" section is unnecessary?