Mark 12:13-27
You Can’t Trap Jesus

Why don’t they like Jesus?

1. Jesus publicly spoke out against the _______________________________ and their hypocrisy
• Mark 12
•Matthew 23
Matt 15:7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: 8 "'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.'"

2. Jesus loved _________________

3. He claimed to be ____________

John 10:22 Then came the Feast of Dedication[b] at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. 24The Jews gathered around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ,[c] tell us plainly."25Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, 26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[d]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30I and the Father are one."31Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"33"We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."

Expect the worst

John 15:20 Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.

V.13 “Pharisees and Herodians”
“Pharisees”- The separated ones.
Now burden-givers

Matt 23:15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

“Herodians”- A political party who were loyal to Herod.

V. 13 “Catch Him in His words”

Luke 20:20 They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor.

V.15 “Should we pay taxes to Caesar or shouldn’t we?”
“Yes” would discredit him in the eyes of the people
“No” would incur the wrath of Rome.

V.15 “Denarius”- a days wage for a laborer or a soldier
“Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Son of the Divine Augustus”

V.16-17 Give to Caesar his image and give to God His image

McCain or Obama.. Our response the same

Rom 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4 For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6 This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7 Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.

Submission to God requires submission to the government
unless they want from us what is God’s alone

Acts 5:27 Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 28 "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name," he said. "Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood." 29 Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!

V.18-23 “Sadducees”
Matt 22:23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question.
Acts 23:8 (The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

V.19 Levirate marriage – Dt. 25:5-10.
Ex: Ruth and Boaz

We don’t believe in a resurrection but since you do Jesus, tell us…

V.24 Sadducees’ problem
1. “You do not know the Scriptures” 2. You don’t know, or believe the power of God.

V.25 “they will be like the angels in heaven”
No sex = No children= No death

V.26 “I am” not “I was”It’s a ‘coming

John 5:28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out-those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.

If there is no resurrection then life is futile

1 Cor 15:17 [If there is no resurrection], your faith is futile; 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

Jean Paul Sartre outspoken atheist wrote in 1943
"Man is a useless passion. Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident. Life and death, there is nothing more.”...
“The world seems ugly, evil and without hope. Such is the tranquil despair of an old man, who will die in that despair. However, I resist, and I shall, I know, die in hope. But this hope must be well grounded.”