Luke (Luk) 20:19-26

The Torah-teachers and the head cohanim would have seized him at that very moment, because they knew that he had aimed this parable at them, but they were afraid of the people. So they kept a close watch on the situation. They sent spies who hypocritically represented themselves as righteous, so that they might seize hold of something Yeshua said, as an excuse to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. They put to him this sh’eilah: “Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God’s way is. Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?” But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them, “Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?” “The Emperor’s,” they replied. “Then,” he said to them, “give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!” They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.