Bible Game · Chapter 2
Caesar's Coin
Pharisees and Herodians — usually no friends of each other — have joined hands. To trap him in his words, they bring a single question that loses him whichever way he answers.
New Testament · Matthew 22 · Jesus and the Pharisees
Unfamiliar words in this case
- Caesar — the emperor of the Roman Empire; here, the Roman power that ruled Judea and levied its taxes.
- denarius — a Roman silver coin, a day's wage for a laborer.
- Pharisees — a Jewish group who kept and taught the law strictly, widely respected among the people.
- Herodians — supporters of Herod's house, set up by Rome; no natural friends of the Pharisees.
The painting in this case
Titian · 1516 · oil · Gemäldegalerie, Dresden — the trap is a single coin in an open palm, and Titian sets it between two faces. The questioner stays turned away, coarse in profile; Jesus is lit and open toward us. Whose image is this? The painting, too, is a contest of faces.
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