Mark 12:15

knowing their hypocrisy "verum se eis ostendit, ut dixerant." Bengel.

bring me "They would not be likely to carry with them the hated Roman coinage with its heathen symbols, though they might have been at once able to produce from their girdles the Temple shekel. But they would only have to step outside the Court of the Gentiles, and obtain from the money-changers" tables a current Roman coin." Farrar, Life, ii. p. 231.

a penny Literally, a denarius, for the value of which see Mark 6:37.