29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: We Belong not to the Government but to God

In today's Gospel we see the Pharisees in a surprising collaboration with their political enemies the Herodians in order to entrap Jesus with his words. Ceftly handling their deceitful questioning, he utters his famous maxim: "Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God." Looking beneath the surface of those words and his invitation to take a closer look at Caesar's image on a Roman coin, the hypocrisy of the Pharisees is exposed... as is the Truth that, stamped with the image of God Himself, we belong totally to Him.