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Render unto Caesar
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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."
Quotes
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
External links
Category:Sayings of Jesus