Quotes About Tax

After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”

“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus declared.

“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.

As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.

While Jesus was dining at Leviís house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with Him and His disciples—for there were many who followed Him.

When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him,

Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesusí disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ëLook at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!í

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus.

And there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, who was very wealthy.