And He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

“Show Me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.

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 Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

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

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”