‘Jesus said, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”’ (Mark 12:17) The question is: Was it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar? Some Pharisees and Herodians joined together and raised this question to test Jesus. The Herodians did not belong to any religious faction, but were enslaved by the Romans. The Pharisees belonged to the opposition party, while the Sadducees were the priests and aristocrats. They all attached too much importance to the teachings without emphasizing the spirit of the law and they stressed that salvation was just a matter of living up with the formality of the Law. If Jesus said not to pay taxes, the Herodians will accuse Him in front of the Romans; if He said yes, He would offend the people and the Pharisees, because they would not want to be ruled by outsiders. The way that Jesus answered points out all the obligations that the people should practice towards both the government and religious faction. (Annotated by the Studium Biblicum) Unfortunately, a lot of people who do not fully understand the law think that the inspired moral concepts and the political power of today’s world are actually unrelated. Many countries legalizing abortion and same-sex marriages are typical examples. Even worse, many people are mistaken that legalization and rationalization are the same. We have not earnestly lived out our life with this teaching. “To God what belongs to God.”