Matthew 22:15

Paying Taxes To Caesar

¹⁴ For many are called ones, but few chosen ones. ¹⁵ Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking. ¹⁶ And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person;

Jesus

Pharisees

Mark 12:13-17

And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.

Luke 20:20-26

And having watched him, they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in his language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the princes plot together, against Jehovah and against his anointed:

Psalm 41:6

And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Psalm 56:5-7

All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

Psalm 59:3

For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

Isaiah 29:21

that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert the judgment of the righteous by futility.

Jeremiah 18:18

And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite 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: Report, and we will report it. All my familiars are watching for my stumbling: Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him; and we shall take our revenge on him.

Luke 11:53-54

And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;

Hebrews 12:3

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.