And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanius the tetrarch of Abilene,

Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Cesar, or not?

Show me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar's.

And he said to them, Render therefore to Cesar the things which are Cesar's, and to God the things which are God's.

And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cesar, saying, that he himself is Christ a king.