Here is a text that even the most "doubting Thomases" in the doubting-Jesus Seminar believe are the undoubted, authentic words of Jesus.

All the synoptic gospels record this intellectual wrestling match between Jesus and the strange tag-team of Pharisees and Herodians. It is equally evident in all three gospels that this is no innocent inquiry seeking Jesus' opinion. The underlying agenda of the Herodians and Pharisees is not difficult to detect. Perhaps more difficult than we have customarily understood, however, is Jesus' response to the moves put on him by these challengers.

In Matthew's version of this verbal sparring match, the Pharisees are credited with plotting this entire scene. The temporary partnership between the Pharisees who combined a theological ideology of exceptional Tora…