“Well then,” He told them, “give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered.

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

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

They began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is the Messiah, a King.”