"Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they answered [and] said, "Caesar's."

So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!"

Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire.

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

Is it permitted [for] us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding [us] to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying [he] himself is Christ, a king!"

And [after he] set out from the synagogue, he went into Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a high fever, and they asked him on behalf of her.