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

"Why do you put me to such a test, you hypocrites? Show me the poll-tax coin!" And they brought him a denarius.

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?