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The Pharisees had evil intentions towards Jesus. In their hatred for Him, they planned to entrap Him in the answers He gave to their loaded questions. One such question was, “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” If He answered that it was right to pay taxes to Caesar, He would be siding with the Romans against Israel and He would be considered a traitor. If however, He said taxes should not be paid to Rome, He could be accused of being a rebel to the authority of Rome. He asked them to give Him a coin used to pay the tax (a Roman denarius, which bore image of Caesar). With the coin in His hand, He answered. “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” The very fact that Israel was occupied By Roman forces, indicated the nation had been unfaithful towards their God and had failed to give God His rightful dues!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Baptist, at first, was unwilling to baptise Jesus as he recognised that He, being sinless, had no sins to confess. Following His baptism, as Jesus came up out of the water, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’ William Barclay points out, ‘The voice which Jesus heard at the baptism is of supreme importance … That sentence is composed of two quotations. "This is my beloved Son", is a quotation from Psalm 2:7. Every Jew accepted that that Psalm as a description of the Messiah, the mighty King of God who was to come. "With whom I am well pleased" is a quotation from Isaiah 42:1, which is a description of the Suffering Servant …’ In a later chapter, the prophet Isaiah will reveal more about this ‘suffering Servant’ – ‘by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.’ [Isaiah 53:11]. This takes us to the cross!

Jesus said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”

Bible Question Time
MARCH  2024
‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased’
Matthew 3:17

Matthew 22:20

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