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The Revised Standard Version of the Bible says it is "a Semitic word for money or riches". [13] The International Children's Bible (ICB) uses the wording "You cannot serve God and money at the same time". [14] Christians began to use "mammon" as a term that was used to describe gluttony, excessive materialism, greed, and unjust worldly gain.
Christ does not here deny that He has judicial power, for He was the King of kings and the Lord of lords; but He wished to use His power over a covetous man to cure him of his greed, and to teach him to prefer heavenly to earthly things, and to give way willingly to them, according to His own words, 6:29, “From him that takes away thy cloak ...
He remembers Jesus' teaching about "giving to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s." and wonders why they’re hurting an innocent man. Horrified, he remembers his own crime: he’s in an alley with a rich gentleman. Holding him up with a knife, he tries to take a box of coins and belongings.
The account starts with a question to Jesus about eternal life, and Jesus then refers to entry into the Kingdom of God in the same context. [7] [8] The rich young man was the context in which Pope John Paul II brought out the Christian moral law in chapter 1 of his 1993 encyclical letter Veritatis splendor. [9]
The Tribute Money, by Titian (1516), depicts Jesus being shown the tribute penny. "Render unto Caesar" is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ).
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The rich man and Lazarus (also called the parable of Dives and Lazarus) [a] is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke. [6] Speaking to his disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus.
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