Is it necessary to pay tithe?
Is it necessary to pay tithe? Mark 12:41 『 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury 』 In the Old Testament, God told the people to pay tithes. The command to pay tithes is based on the law. Leviticus 27:30 says, “ And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD. ” Church people today find the basis for tithing based on this regulation, and they also look for the origins of Abraham's offering to Melchizedek after the war or Jacob's vow before the law. Jesus explains tithing again in Matthew 23:23. 『 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 』 If you look at the Greek in bold, τα ῦ τα [ δ ὲ ] ἔ δει ...