Matthew 22:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁷ So, tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Tell us then what You think about this: Is it lawful to pay tribute [levied on individuals and to be paid yearly] to Caesar or not?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ So tell us what you think: Does the Law allow people to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Therefore, tell us, how does it seem to you? Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar, or not?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Matthew 22:17 Cross References

Matthew 17:25

He replied, “Yes, [He does].” And when Peter entered the house, Jesus spoke to him first, [i.e., without waiting for Peter to tell Him what he had said to the tax collectors], saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect custom duty and taxes? From their children or from strangers?”

Matthew 22:18

But Jesus perceived their wicked intention and said, “Why are you putting me to a test, you hypocrites?

Luke 2:1

Now it happened in those days that a decree was sent out from Caesar Augustus [the Emperor of the Roman Empire] requiring [people from] the whole empire to be registered [i.e., for taxation purposes].

Luke 20:22

Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

Luke 3:1

Now it was the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip was ruler of the regions of Ituraea and Trachonitus [Note: These two men were sons of Herod the Great (See Matt. 2:1) and ruled over provinces east of the Jordan River] and Lysanias was ruler of Abilene [Note: This was a province just north of the two previously mentioned ones].

Acts 17:7

Jason has welcomed them and [now] all of them [i.e., Paul, Silas, Jason and the others] are going against the [Roman] laws of Caesar by saying that someone else is [our] king; that Jesus is [king]!”

Acts 25:8

Paul replied in his defense, “I have not committed any sin against the law of the Jews, nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar.”

Acts 28:22

But we would like to hear what you think, for according to our knowledge, this sect [you belong to] is being spoken against everywhere.”

Acts 5:37

Later on another man, named Judas of Galilee, appeared during the census [Note: The time and circumstances of this census were probably known to the original readers], and led [a group of] people away after him, but he also was killed and all of his followers were scattered.