Paying Taxes to Caesar

Matthew 22

15 g Then the Pharisees went and plotted how h to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent i their disciples to him, along with j the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, k we know that you are true and teach l the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for m you are not swayed by appearances. 1 17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay n taxes to o Caesar, or not?" 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why p put me to the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the coin for the tax." And they brought him a denarius. 2 20 And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" 21 They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, q "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 22 When they heard it, they marveled. And they r left him and went away.

  1. Cross References
    Matthew 22:15 - 32
    Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
    Mark 12:13 - 27
    And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.
    Luke 20:20 - 38
    So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
  2. Cross References
    Luke 11:54
    Lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 22:15 - 32
    Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
    Mark 12:13 - 27
    And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.
    Luke 20:20 - 38
    So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
  4. Cross References
    Mark 2:18
    Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?
  5. Cross References
    Mark 3:6
    The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
    Mark 8:15
    And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.
  6. Cross References
    John 3:2
    This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.
  7. Cross References
    Acts 18:26
    He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
    Acts 13:10
    And said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?
  8. Cross References
    Acts 10:34
    So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality.
  9. Cross References
    Matthew 17:25
    He said, "Yes." And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?
  10. Cross References
    Luke 2:1
    In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
    Luke 3:1
    In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene.
  11. Cross References
    John 8:6
    This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
  12. Cross References
    Romans 13:7
    Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
  13. Cross References
    Mark 12:12
    And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.
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