Is it right for us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar or not?”

Pay everyone what is owed: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king.”