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suicide by martyrium actually is a heresy that the church has had to deal with at different points in history.

heh so he was actually giving THEM out by separating God and ceaser.

very much this. I also thought it was meant to be a slight towards the Pharisees, here these guys who are supposed to be the spiritual leaders of the jews, getting involved in intrigue.

Admittedly this. God doesn't care one way or the other about secular powers. In fact the first wake revival whatever you want to call it involved all the Christians becoming nomads due to persecution and scattering to the 4 corners of the earth and adapting to whatever society would tolerate...

sounds like the state of our government to be honest. I would also like to point out that from what I understand of scripture most disputes were hoped to be disputed and settled amongst the parties themselves long before they reached the courts. The courts were their to sort out a dispute...