And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Ver. 20. Whose is this image, &c.] Not that he knew not whose it was, but that he might refell them by their own answers, judge them out of their own mouth; and that the people (into whose hatred they thought by this captious question to draw him) might see that this was not more his than the Pharisees' own sentence.
They said unto him, Caesar's] Julius Caesar was the first that had his own face stamped in the Roman coin.