Paying Taxes to Caesar

Mark 12

¹³ _y And they sent to him some of _z the Pharisees and some of _z the Herodians, to _a trap him in his talk. ¹⁴ And they came and said to him, "Teacher, _b we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For _c you are not swayed by appearances, ₁ but truly teach _d the way of God. Is it lawful to pay _e taxes to _f Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?" ¹⁵ But, knowing _g their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why _h put me to the test? Bring me _i a denarius ₂ and let me look at it." ¹⁶ And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." ¹⁷ Jesus said to them, _j "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at him.

1. Cross References
   Mark 12:13 - 27
   And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.
   Matthew 22:15 - 32
   Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
   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
   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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 11:54
   Lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.
   
5. Cross References
   Mark 12:13 - 27
   And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.
   Matthew 22:15 - 32
   Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.
   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.
   
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 10:34
   So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 18:25 - 26
   He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.
   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?
   
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
    Matthew 23:28
    So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
    Luke 12:1
    In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
    
12. 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.
    
13. Cross References
    Matthew 18:28
    But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.
    
14. 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.