Luke 20:24
New International Version
“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.

New Living Translation
“Show me a Roman coin. Whose picture and title are stamped on it?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.

English Standard Version
“Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

Berean Standard Bible
“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.

Berean Literal Bible
"Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they said, "Caesar's."

King James Bible
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.

New King James Version
Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?” They answered and said, “Caesar’s.”

New American Standard Bible
“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

NASB 1995
“Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

NASB 1977
“Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” And they said, “Caesar’s.”

Legacy Standard Bible
“Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

Amplified Bible
“Show Me a [Roman] denarius. Whose image and inscription does the coin have?” They answered, “[the Emperor Tiberius] Caesar’s.”

Christian Standard Bible
“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have? ” “Caesar’s,” they said.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?"” Caesar’s,” they said.

American Standard Version
Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, C�sar's.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription is on it?” They said, “Caesar's.”

Contemporary English Version
"Show me a coin." Then he asked, "Whose picture and name are on it?" "The Emperor's," they answered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him, Caesar's.

English Revised Version
Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Caesar's.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Show me a coin. Whose face and name is this?" They answered, "The emperor's."

Good News Translation
"Show me a silver coin. Whose face and name are these on it?" "The Emperor's," they answered.

International Standard Version
"Show me a denarius. Whose face and name does it have?" "Caesar's," they replied.

Literal Standard Version
Show Me a denarius; of whom does it have an image and inscription?” And they answering said, “Of Caesar”:

Majority Standard Bible
Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered.

New American Bible
“Show me a denarius; whose image and name does it bear?” They replied, “Caesar’s.”

NET Bible
"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They said, "Caesar's."

New Revised Standard Version
“Show me a denarius. Whose head and whose title does it bear?” They said, “The emperor’s.”

New Heart English Bible
"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's."

Webster's Bible Translation
Show me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar's.

Weymouth New Testament
"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.

World English Bible
Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”

Young's Literal Translation
shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, 'Of Caesar:'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Paying Taxes to Caesar
23But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them, 24“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesar’s,” they answered. 25So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”…

Cross References
Matthew 20:2
He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 22:20
"Whose image is this," He asked, "and whose inscription?"

Luke 20:23
But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,

Luke 20:25
So Jesus told them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."


Treasury of Scripture

Show me a penny. Whose image and superscription has it? They answered and said, Caesar's.

a penny.

Matthew 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

Matthew 20:2
And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

image.

Caesar's.

Luke 20:22
Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?

Luke 2:1
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Luke 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

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Luke 20
1. Jesus confirms his authority by a question of John's baptism.
9. The parable of the vineyard.
19. Of giving tribute to Caesar.
27. He instructs the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection.
41. How Jesus is the Son of David.
45. He warns his disciples to beware of the scribes.














Verse 24. - Show me a penny; literally, a denarius, a coin of the value of 7.5 d., but really representing a larger sum in our money. It seems probable, from the language of Mark 12:15, 16, that his interrogators had to borrow the Roman coin in question from some of the neighbouring money-changers. These Jews would scarcely carry any but Jewish coins in their girdles. That the Roman denarius, however, was evidently a coin in common circulation in those days, we gather from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. "On one side would be the once beautiful but now depraved features of Tiberius; the title 'Pontifex Maximus' was probably inscribed on the obverse" (Farrar).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“Show
Δείξατέ (Deixate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1166: A prolonged form of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to show.

Me
μοι (moi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

a denarius.
δηνάριον (dēnarion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1220: A denarius, a small Roman silver coin. Of Latin origin; a denarius.

Whose
τίνος (tinos)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

image
εἰκόνα (eikona)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1504: An image, likeness, bust. From eiko; a likeness, i.e. statue, profile, or representation, resemblance.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

inscription
ἐπιγραφήν (epigraphēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1923: An inscription, title, label. From epigrapho; an inscription.

are on it?”
ἔχει (echei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

“Caesar’s,”
Καίσαρος (Kaisaros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2541: Of Latin origin; Caesar, a title of the Roman emperor.

they answered.
εἶπαν (eipan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.


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