Luke 20:20
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
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Study Note
'And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words' — Luke's scene-setting for the tribute-to-Caesar question exposes the studied dishonesty of Jesus's opponents: they performed justice and sought it simultaneously, deploying a mask of sincere inquiry to achieve a judicial trap. The Greek hypokrinomai ('feign') is the same root as 'hypocrisy,' making their performance an inadvertent illustration of the very Pharisaic leaven Jesus had warned against in 12:1. Jesus's answer — 'Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's' (verse 25) — has become the founding text for Christian two-kingdoms and church-state reflection across two millennia.
Otras traducciones
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.
And, having watched <FI>him<Fi> , they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,
And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.
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