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

"Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God."

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

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,