KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 22:18–20
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Matthew 22:18
18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
18But Iesus perceiued their wickednesse, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
Matthew 22:19
19Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
19Shew me the tribute money. And they brought vnto him a †peny.
- In value seven pence halfe peny, chap. 20.2.
Matthew 22:20
20And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
20And he sayth vnto them, Whose is this image and ‖superscription?
- Or, inscription.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 22:18
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To try, test, put to the test.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
hypocrites
Persons who pretend to virtue or godliness while concealing contrary character or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Matthew 22:19
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Payment or contribution exacted or rendered to a ruler.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Coin or another medium of payment; wealth in spendable form.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The monetary coin or unit called a penny in the KJV; the entry does not equate it with a modern penny or impose a modern value.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Matthew 22:20
A likeness, representation, or visible form; often an idol when made or used as an object of worship.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
superscription
Writing placed upon or above something; an inscription.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
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From verse 18
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Open the full verse study25And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
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Open the full verse study6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
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Open the full verse study22But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
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Open the full verse study9Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
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Open the full verse study23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
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Open the full verse study25¶ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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Open the full verse study23But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
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Open the full verse study47And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
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Open the full verse study5And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
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Open the full verse study8And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
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Open the full verse study1THE Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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Open the full verse study3¶ The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
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Open the full verse study28But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
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Open the full verse study6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study24Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cæsar’s.
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