Thought for the Week: Render unto Caesar…

Martin Jenkins reflects on an often quoted Bible saying

by Martin Jenkins 6th July 2018

Jesus said: ‘…render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.’ (Matthew 22:21)

This saying is often quoted – more often by the partisans of Caesar than by those of God – but is not well understood. Even Henry Thoreau missed the point. He wrote that Jesus left his questioners ‘no wiser than before as to which was which; for they did not wish to know’.