Matthew 22:15

Paying Taxes To Caesar

¹⁴ For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation. ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him. ¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

Jesus

Pharisees

Mark 12:13-17

Then they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and the Herodians, so that they might make use of his words to take him by a trick.

Luke 20:20-26

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

Psalm 41:6

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Psalm 56:5-7

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Psalm 57:6

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

Psalm 59:3

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

Isaiah 29:21

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

Jeremiah 20:10

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Luke 11:53-54

And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things;

Hebrews 12:3

Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.