Luke 20:19-26 At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them. ²⁰ So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. ²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly. ²² Is it right for us to pay tribute to Caesar or not?" ²³ But he noted their knavery and said to them, ²⁴ "Show me a shilling. Whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they replied. ²⁵ "Well then," he said to them, "give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God what belongs to God." ²⁶ So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.