Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with entrapping questions as we pick up in Mark, chapter 12, verse 14.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

Judah was a Roman province.

As a Roman province, the governor was directly appointed by Rome,

and the Roman government excise taxes from them

that were paid directly to the Roman government,

and there were three basic taxes.

First of all, you were taxed on the land that you had,

and you had to give one-tenth of your crop to the government,

that is your grains and all from the fields. You had to give one-fifth of the fruit, that which grew

from the trees that were there on the land. Secondly, there was a straight across the board 5% income tax. And then thirdly,

you had to pay each year a denarius to the government just for the right of existing. This was a tax

upon everyone. A denarius, because you lived.

And so the Jews hated this taxation.

They did not really recognize the Roman authority over them.

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