Matthew 22

17 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar  * 22:17 Mk 12:14,16–17; Lk 2:1; 3:1; 20:22,24–25; Jn 19:12,15 or not? "

18 Perceiving their malicious intent, Jesus said, "Why are you testing me, hypocrites?19 Show me the coin used for the tax." They brought him a denarius.  * 22:19 A denarius = one day’s wage20 "Whose image and inscription is this? " he asked them.

21 "Caesar’s," they said to him.

Then he said to them, "Give, then, to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s."* 22:21 Mt 17:25; Rm 13:7