So give us your opinion: Is it right to pay the poll-tax to the emperor, or not?"

They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

And they came up and said to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth regardless of the consequences, for you are not guided by personal considerations, but teach the way of God with sincerity. Is it right to pay the poll tax to the emperor or not?

And they brought him one. He said to them, "Whose head and title is this?" And they told him, "The emperor's."

And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him.

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

Is it right for us to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?"

"Show me a denarius. Whose head and title does it bear?" They said, "The emperor's."

He said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

At that they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

and Jason has taken them in. They all disobey the emperor's decrees, and claim that someone else called Jesus is king."

Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor."

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see.

If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor."

Then Festus after conferring with the council answered, "You have appealed to the emperor, and to the emperor you shall go!"

But Paul appealed to have his case reserved for his Majesty's decision, and I have ordered him kept in custody until I can send him to the emperor."

"He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."

and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the emperor, and see! God has given you the lives of all the people who are on the ship with you.'

But the Jews objected, and I was obliged to appeal to the emperor??ot that I had any charge to make against my own nation.

All God's people wish to be remembered to you, especially those who belong to the emperor's household.

Submit to all human authority, for the Master's sake; to the emperor, as supreme,

Treat everyone with respect. Love the brotherhood, be reverent to God, respect the emperor.