Matthew 22:17

Which verses does Matthew 22:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Luke 2:14 votes

   Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.

2. Romans 13:6–74 votes

   This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work. Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

3. Matthew 17:253 votes

   “Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”

4. Acts 28:222 votes

   But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”

5. Deuteronomy 17:14–151 vote

   When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

6. Ezra 4:131 vote

   Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are restored, they will not pay tribute, duty, or toll, and the royal treasury will suffer.

7. Ezra 7:241 vote

   And be advised that you have no authority to impose tribute, duty, or toll on any of the priests, Levites, singers, doorkeepers, temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.

8. Nehemiah 5:41 vote

   Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

9. Nehemiah 9:371 vote

   Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

10. Jeremiah 42:2–31 vote

    Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes. Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

11. Jeremiah 42:201 vote
12. Luke 3:11 vote
13. John 19:12–151 vote
14. Acts 5:371 vote
15. Acts 17:71 vote
16. Acts 25:81 vote

Which verses point to Matthew 22:17?

The 10 strongest of 23.

• Romans 13:6 9
• Jeremiah 12:6 5
• Matthew 12:10 5
• Matthew 17:25 5
• Luke 20:20 5
• John 8:5 5
• Psalm 28:3 3
• Psalm 36:3 3
• Ezekiel 33:30 3
• Luke 20:37 3