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Lesson · Grades 5–8 · Religion · The Tribute Penny
Whose Image Is This?
Why this matters
Coins, flags and screens all ask for our loyalty every day. Jesus’ question gives us a way to tell what belongs to God.
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By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
- read a Roman coin as evidence: whose image, whose inscription, and what it claims
- explain the trap set for Jesus, and how his answer escapes it
- connect “give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21) to being made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27)
- Go deeperjudge when obedience to the state must give way to conscience
James Tissot (1836–1902), Brooklyn Museum