Daily Readings (Page 221)

What do you understand by God is the God of the living and not God of the dead?  What difference does this make in your life?

Why is an in-depth understanding of Scriptures illumine by the Holy Spirit important to the Christian believer?  Are you encouraged to ask God to give you a deeper understanding of His word like Jesus?

How did the questions reveal to us Jesus’ wisdom?

What is so different between the Sadducees’ belief and the Pharisees’ especially with the understanding on resurrection?

How do we give to God what is God’s and to the secular authorities what rightly belongs to them?

We see how evil the people were in displaying such hypocrisy.  Do we often behave like this towards Jesus?

Note how Jesus made use of a denarius as His teaching aid?

They rightly perceived what Jesus did but still they wanted to trap Jesus.  What do you think of this deep-seated hypocrisy?  Do you see the danger of such hypocrisy in yourself?  What should you be doing about it when you see such danger?

What do you think was the motivation of the chief priests and teachers of the law?

What is the main point of this passage?