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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything&#8212;all she had to live on.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They came to him and said, &#8220;Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:14 </span><span class="ft">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span></span></span><span class="content"> to Caesar or not? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Should we pay or shouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="content">But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you trying to trap me?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They brought the coin, and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="content">And they were amazed at him.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.6.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div>
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