He answered, "Yes." When Jesus reached home -- He got there ahead of Simon -- He asked him, "What do you think about it, Simon? From whom do civil rulers collect duties or taxes, from their own citizens or from aliens?"

So give us your opinion on the question: Is it right to pay Caesar the poll-tax, or not?"

Or those eighteen people at Siloam on whom the tower fell and whom it crushed to death, do you think that they were offenders worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

I am speaking to sensible men; decide for yourselves about what I say.

A certain

Then He said: "There was a man who had two sons.

Son

Again he went out about twelve o'clock and three o'clock, and did as before.

It will be like a man who leaves his home and goes on a journey, after he has given orders to his slaves, to each his particular task, and has given orders to the watchman to keep watch.

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

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Now the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling at His disciples, and were saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-collectors and notorious sinners?"

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."

Now all the tax-collectors and notorious sinners were crowding around Him to listen to Him.