Matthew 22:15

Paying Taxes To Caesar

¹⁴ For many are called, but few chosen." ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk. ¹⁶ They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you are not partial to anyone.

Jesus

Pharisees

Mark 12:13-17

They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

Luke 20:20-26

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psalm 41:6

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

Psalm 56:5-7

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

Psalm 59:3

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

Isaiah 29:21

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, "Come, and let us make plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. "Denounce, and we will denounce him," say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; "perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him."

Luke 11:53-54

And when he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him who has endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you do not grow weary in your souls and lose heart.