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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Caesar (Emperor living at the time of the New Testament)
Not one man. Caesar is the New Testament's title for whoever was Roman emperor, Augustus when Jesus was born and Tiberius when he was crucified.
Not one man. Caesar is the New Testament's title for whoever was Roman emperor, Augustus when Jesus was born and Tiberius when he was crucified.
Caesar is used throughout the New Testament as the standard title for the reigning Roman emperor rather than one specific man, covering at least Augustus, under whom Jesus was born, and Tiberius, during whose reign Jesus was crucified. Jesus's famous instruction to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's was a direct response to a politically loaded question about paying imperial taxes.
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- Matthew 22:17
- Matthew 22:21
- Mark 12:14
- Mark 12:16
- Mark 12:17
- Luke 20:22
- Luke 20:24
- Luke 20:25
- Luke 23:2
- John 19:12
- John 19:15
