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

"Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They said, "Caesar's."

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.

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 right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?"

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."