So he told them, "Then give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

"Show me a denarius. Whose face and name does it have?" "Caesar's," they replied.

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

They began to accuse him, "We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king."

Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.

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