Pointing to coins required for the tax, Jesus answered a trick question from the Pharisees be explaining that we should “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” But if coins bearing the image of Caesar should be rendered to him, then humans, made in the image of God, must be rendered to the Lord. That tax has been paid for us by the Lord Jesus, the image of God in the flesh, by His self-offering on the cross. And from His cross, as the Lord’s anointed, He reigns as the true Caesar over all nations “from the rising of the sun and from the west.”
