On Paying Taxes to Caesar

On Paying Taxes to Caesar
Luke 20.20-26

We went a few weeks ago to see the longest-running stage play in history. Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap has now been performed continuously for almost my entire lifetime. At the time of writing it has had over 20,000 performances. And it’s still pulling in the crowds.

The plot turns, as with so many murder mysteries, on the audience’s expectation that one character, or perhaps another, is in fact the real culprit. Almost everyone on stage, it seems, might just possibly have been the murderer, and everybody is waiting eagerly to find out the answer. Then, near the end, it turns out after all to be . . . but I don’t want to spoil the story. The main thing is the cleverness of the writer, producer and actors in making you think one thing is going to happen, only then to discover something completely different...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright