Caesar in the Bible
Exact Match
Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.
Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,
So, He said, "A certain distinguished gentleman went to a distant country to receive a royal appointment [i.e., as king over a territory] and then return. [Note: This is the only parable of Jesus' that correlates with a known incident; that of Herod's son Archelaus going to Rome to receive from Caesar Augustus an appointment to rule over Judea, Samaria and Idumaea in
Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
"Show me a twenty-cent coin. Whose picture and title does it bear?" They answered, "Caesar's."
He said to them, "Then pay Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and pay God what belongs to God!"
Here they began to make the following charges against Him: "We have found this fellow corrupting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar and claiming to be a king himself."