^23-24 But Jesus saw through their cunning and said to them, “Show me one of the coins. Whose face is this, and whose name is in the inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they said.

²⁵ “Then give to Caesar,” he replied, “what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.”

²⁶ So his reply gave them no sort of handle that they could use against him publicly. And in fact they were so taken aback by his answer that they had nothing more to say.