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-# Connecting Statement:
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-This begins an account of the religious leaders trying to trap Jesus with several difficult questions. Here the Pharisees ask him about paying taxes to Caesar.
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 # how they might entrap Jesus in his own talk
 
 "how they could cause Jesus to say something wrong so they could arrest him"