The Meaning of Luke 20:24 Explained

Luke 20:24

KJV: Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.

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

Darby: Shew me a denarius. Whose image and superscription has it? And answering they said, Caesar's.

ASV: Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Caesar's.

Discover Luke 20:24

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Luke 20:24?

MEANING: What does Luke 20:24 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Luke 20:24 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Luke 20:24?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Luke 20:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 20:19-26 - Tribute To Caesar And To God
Fearing to touch Him themselves, and finding no foothold against Him according to the Mosaic law, His enemies sought to bring Christ into collision with the civil power. To do this, no hypocrisy was too mean.
So poor was our Lord that He must needs ask them to furnish the penny or drachma. Caesar has a certain claim on us. He has earned certain rights of homage and tribute by preserving the good order of society and the safety of our persons; but there his authority ends. When he intrudes into the realm of conscience, he is a usurper. In that kingdom he has no claims whatever.
We must give Caesar his dues. They can be paid in the coin of earth's mintage; but he has no claim on our conscience, faith, love. These bear the mint-mark of God, and to God they must be rendered. Ah, soul! Thou belongest to the great King; thou art stamped with His image and superscription! Give Him thyself! [source]

Chapter Summary: 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

Greek Commentary for Luke 20:24

Penny []
See on Matthew 20:2. [source]
Image and superscription []
See on Matthew 22:20. [source]

What do the individual words in Luke 20:24 mean?

Show Me a denarius Of whom has it [the] image and inscription - And they said Caesar’s
Δείξατέ μοι δηνάριον τίνος ἔχει εἰκόνα καὶ ἐπιγραφήν Οἱ δὲ εἶπαν Καίσαρος

Δείξατέ  Show 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Imperative Active, 2nd Person Plural
Root: δείκνυμι 
Sense: to show, expose to the eyes.
μοι  Me 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative 1st Person Singular
Root: ἐγώ  
Sense: I, me, my.
δηνάριον  a  denarius 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular
Root: δηνάριον  
Sense: A Roman silver coin in NT time.
τίνος  Of  whom 
Parse: Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: τίς  
Sense: who, which, what.
ἔχει  has  it 
Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular
Root: ἔχω  
Sense: to have, i.e. to hold.
εἰκόνα  [the]  image 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: εἰκών  
Sense: an image, figure, likeness.
ἐπιγραφήν  inscription 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: ἐπιγραφή  
Sense: an inscription, title.
Οἱ  - 
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ὁ  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
εἶπαν  they  said 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: λέγω  
Sense: to speak, say.
Καίσαρος  Caesar’s 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Masculine Singular
Root: Καῖσαρ  
Sense: the surname of Julius Caesar, which adopted by Octavius Augustus and his successors afterwards became a title, and was appropriated by the Roman emperors as part of their title.

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