Tensions continue to escalate between Jesus and the authorities. Now, the scribes and the Pharisees try to trap him with a question on taxes. Jesus now faces a dilemma, if He answers with the Pharisees, He shows himself to be an enemy of Rome. If He answers with the Herodians, he offends popular Jewish religious sensibilities. When Jesus asks to look at the denarius with Caesar’s emblem on it, He reminds us to put all things into their proper perspective. While worldly things pass and have a temporary place, they fade away. What truly matters at the end of our lives is that of our love for God and our neighbor. We must, as the letter to Diognetus says , “ live as though we are only passing through this world.” since our homeland is in heaven.Do we attach ourselves to worldly things at the expense of the love and honor that we owe to God ?