He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

"Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar's."

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the world.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"