⁶ This is also why you pay taxes,^(A) for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. ⁷ Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes;^(B) if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

⁴ Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax^(A) on our fields and vineyards.

²⁵ “Yes, he does,” he replied.

When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes^(A)—from their own children or from others?”

The Calling of Matthew^(A)

⁹ As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,”^(B) he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.