Bill O’Reilly Pathetically Defends Trump: ‘Jesus Never Put Out His Tax Returns!’

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6. Didn't Jesus say "Don't try to wiggle yourself out of laws by invoking your religion?"

IIRC rabbis asked Jesus whether it's just for Jews to pay roman taxes, as the roman emperors are depicted on the coins and as they are worshipped as gods at the same time. They wanted to trick him into making a religious statement why it's wrong to pay roman taxes because it's implicitly worship of roman gods. By tricking him into such a statement, they could have ratted him out to the Romans for rebellion.

Jesus' answer was: Give God what is God's. Give Caesar what is Caesar's.
Translated: Your religion and the law are two different things.



EDIT: I just read it up. My recollection wasn't entirely correct. Resistance to paying the tax was a political issue to begin with, not a religious issue.