"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."

"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.

Just at this time an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for the registration of the whole Empire.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judaea, Herod Tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene,

Is it allowable to pay a tax to Caesar, or not?"

"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."