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I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and there is a question Jesus asks which is “Who’s face is on that coin?” Well since Jesus is also God, and God is all knowing why would he ask this sort of question? Or was this his human nature kicking in not knowing that the face on the coin was Ceasar.
 
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I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and there is a question Jesus asks which is “Who’s face is on that coin?” Well since Jesus is also God, and God is all knowing why would he ask this sort of question? Or was this his human nature kicking in not knowing that the face on the coin was Ceasar.
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What makes you think he did not know as opposed to using interrogative as a teaching tool?
 
From the way it read it sounded as though he did not know which confuses me because he is God so how can he not know?
 
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From the way it read it sounded as though he did not know which confuses me because he is God so how can he not know?
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I don’t read the passage that way at all.

Jesus is human and divine. He can access either his human knowledge or his divine knowledge. The hypostatic union is a mystery we cannot fully understand.
 
He knew - he was asking to make his disciples think about it. The coin belongs to Caesar because it was made with his image on it. There is an implied parallel question underneath his comment “give to God what is God’s” - that is, “whose image is on you?”
 
Churchman25 said:
I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and there is a question Jesus asks which is “Who’s face is on that coin?” Well since Jesus is also God, and God is all knowing why would he ask this sort of question? Or was this his human nature kicking in not knowing that the face on the coin was Ceasar.
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Why does it have to mean he does not know? He’s asking them because he wants them to answer, not for them to inform him.

It’s not like you don’t ask questions in this manner on your daily life.
 
Churchman25 said:
I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and there is a question Jesus asks which is “Who’s face is on that coin?” Well since Jesus is also God, and God is all knowing why would he ask this sort of question? Or was this his human nature kicking in not knowing that the face on the coin was Ceasar.
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It has nothing to do with Him not knowing, and everything to do with turning the tables on the idiots who won’t leave Him alone
 
Churchman25 said:
I was reading the Gospel of Matthew today and there is a question Jesus asks which is “Who’s face is on that coin?” Well since Jesus is also God, and God is all knowing why would he ask this sort of question? Or was this his human nature kicking in not knowing that the face on the coin was Ceasar.
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One can question a student to see what he will say and if he understands. I sometimes use questions with my students even though I already know the answer.
 
Read the rest of the passage fro context.

See also: “How many fingers am I holding up?” :rolleyes:
 
Asking questions is a teaching technique.
Instead of answering the question directly, which was meant to trick him, He turned it around. Whose image is on the coin?
 
Jesus never asked questions for his own benefit, they where always for the benefit of the ones he asked! The Gospels cannot be ‘cherry picked’ you ALWAYs must read the whole passage to gain its full meaning.
 
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Why does it have to mean he does not know? He’s asking them because he wants them to answer, not for them to inform him.

It’s not like you don’t ask questions in this manner on your daily life.
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Well, exactly

OP, think of it like a parent saying, ‘And what do we always do before crossing the road?’ to a child, or ‘What’s the magic word?’ when the child wants something.

Or perhaps more ominously, ‘What have I told you before about…’.

It’s an everyday technique for emphasising a point.
 
Australian republican - “The British monarchy has nothing to do with Australia.”

Australian monarchist - “whose head do you think is on all of our coins?”
 
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