"Show me a shilling. Whose image and superscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied.

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

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

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

and began to accuse him. "We have found this fellow perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and proclaiming that he is the Messiah and King."