Luke 20:24
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24 “Show me a Roman coin.[a] Whose picture and title are stamped on it?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
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- 20:24 Greek a denarius.
Matthew 18:28
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28 “But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars.[a] He grabbed him by the throat and demanded instant payment.
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- 18:28 Greek 100 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage.
Philippians 4:22
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22 And all the rest of God’s people send you greetings, too, especially those in Caesar’s household.
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Acts 26:32
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32 And Agrippa said to Festus, “He could have been set free if he hadn’t appealed to Caesar.”
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Acts 25:8-12
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8 Paul denied the charges. “I am not guilty of any crime against the Jewish laws or the Temple or the Roman government,” he said.
9 Then Festus, wanting to please the Jews, asked him, “Are you willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there?”
10 But Paul replied, “No! This is the official Roman court, so I ought to be tried right here. You know very well I am not guilty of harming the Jews. 11 If I have done something worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die. But if I am innocent, no one has a right to turn me over to these men to kill me. I appeal to Caesar!”
12 Festus conferred with his advisers and then replied, “Very well! You have appealed to Caesar, and to Caesar you will go!”
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Acts 11:28
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28 One of them named Agabus stood up in one of the meetings and predicted by the Spirit that a great famine was coming upon the entire Roman world. (This was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius.)
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Luke 23:2
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2 They began to state their case: “This man has been leading our people astray by telling them not to pay their taxes to the Roman government and by claiming he is the Messiah, a king.”
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Luke 20:22
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22 Now tell us—is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”
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Luke 3:1
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John the Baptist Prepares the Way
3 It was now the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius, the Roman emperor. Pontius Pilate was governor over Judea; Herod Antipas was ruler[a] over Galilee; his brother Philip was ruler[b] over Iturea and Traconitis; Lysanias was ruler over Abilene.
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Luke 2:1
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The Birth of Jesus
2 At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire.
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Matthew 20:2
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2 He agreed to pay the normal daily wage[a] and sent them out to work.
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