17 Tell us, therefore, what You think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar(A) or not?”

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17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a](A) to Caesar or not?”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens

The Messiah’s Herald

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,[a] while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,(A) Herod was tetrarch[b] of Galilee,(B) his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea[c] and Trachonitis,[d] and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 3:1 Emperor who ruled the Roman Empire a.d. 14–37
  2. Luke 3:1 Or ruler
  3. Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
  4. Luke 3:1 A small province northeast of Galilee
  5. Luke 3:1 A small Syrian province

John the Baptist Prepares the Way(A)(B)

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate(C) was governor of Judea, Herod(D) tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—

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