Study Preparation and Discussion Questions - Mark 12.13-17
On Paying Taxes to Cesar
Recommended Preparation
1) Mark 12.13-17
2) Mark For Everyone, pages 161-164
3) Tim Keller Sermon, Arguing About Politics
Discussion Questions
1) Regarding the question the Pharisees and Herodians ask, how could Jesus equally get in trouble (but with different groups) by saying "Pay taxes" or by saying "Don't pay taxes"?
2) How does Jesus avoid being trapped?
3) This passage is often quoted today as an argument for "separation of church and state". However, Jewish and early Christian thought has always seen the entire world and everything created in it as created by one God with all aspects of it falling under his sovereign rule. What aspects of life today are people tempted to believe are separate from religious conviction or don't have much if anything to do with faith?
1) Mark 12.13-17
2) Mark For Everyone, pages 161-164
3) Tim Keller Sermon, Arguing About Politics
Discussion Questions
1) Regarding the question the Pharisees and Herodians ask, how could Jesus equally get in trouble (but with different groups) by saying "Pay taxes" or by saying "Don't pay taxes"?
2) How does Jesus avoid being trapped?
3) This passage is often quoted today as an argument for "separation of church and state". However, Jewish and early Christian thought has always seen the entire world and everything created in it as created by one God with all aspects of it falling under his sovereign rule. What aspects of life today are people tempted to believe are separate from religious conviction or don't have much if anything to do with faith?