Matthew 22:15

Paying Taxes To Caesar

¹⁴ “For many are invited, but few are chosen.” ¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him by what He said. ¹⁶ They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

Jesus

Pharisees

Mark 12:13-17

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said.

Luke 20:20-26

They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so they could catch Him in what He said, to hand Him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

Psalm 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand,
and the rulers conspire together
against the Lord and His Anointed One:

Psalm 41:6

When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully;
he stores up evil in his heart;
he goes out and talks.

Psalm 56:5-7

They twist my words all day long;
all their thoughts against me are evil.

Psalm 57:6

They prepared a net for my steps;
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!Selah

Psalm 59:3

Lord, look! They set an ambush for me.
Powerful men attack me,
but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.

Isaiah 29:21

those who, with their speech,
accuse a person of wrongdoing,
who set a trap at the gate for the mediator,
and without cause deprive the righteous of justice.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

Jeremiah 20:10

For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”

Luke 11:53-54

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things;

Hebrews 12:3

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.