(this tax was first levied when Cyrenius was governor of Syria) and they all went to be enrolled,

And tax-gatherers came also to be baptised, and they said to him, Teacher, what should we do?

And he answered them, "Do not collect any more [tax money] than you are required to."

And after these things he went forth and saw a tax-gatherer, Levi by name, sitting at the receipt of taxes, and said to him, Follow me.

And Levi made a great entertainment for him in his house, and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and others who were at table with them.

And their scribes and the Pharisees murmured at his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with tax-gatherers and sinners?

(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming near to him to hear him;

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.

The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.

And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.

And behold, there was a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.

And when the crowd saw this, they began complaining [i.e., because Zacchaeus was a despised tax collector] and said, "He is going to lodge with a sinful man."

Is it allowable to pay a 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."