Render unto Caesar
a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels
Render unto Caesar is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
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Quotes
edit- The true intent of the New Testament verse about “rendering unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” is not the meaning deduced by modem harmonizing interpretations, namely a positive recognition of the obligation to pay taxes, but rather the reverse, an absolute indifference to all the affairs of the mundane world.
- Max Weber, Sociology of Religion (1922), as translated by Ephraim Fischoff (Beacon Press: 1963), p. 231
