• Romans 1

  • Video Introduction to the Book of Romans

  • The City of Rome

  • Apartment Buildings in Ancient Rome

  • Synagogue in the City of Ostia

  • Romans 2

  • Synagogue in the City of Ostia

  • Romans 11

  • Grafting an Olive Branch

  • Grafting a Wild Olive Shoot Into the Garden Olive Tree

  • Olive Tree

  • Romans 13

  • Taxation

  • Romans 15

  • Paul’s Journeys After c. 61 C.E.

  • Romans 16

  • Letter Writing

  • Erastus Inscription in Corinth

The items shown in the illustrations and 3-D video footage in the Media Gallery are based on extensive research. However, they are artists’ renditions and, at times, depict only one of several possibilities.

Taxation

Taxation

Shown here is a sales-tax receipt from the first century C.E. It records a tax payment made to an official bank in the Roman province of Egypt on the sale of a property. The Roman Empire levied several taxes, and provinces exacted local taxes. Findings like this illustrate how some tax payments were recorded. Paul’s counsel encouraging Roman Christians to pay taxes follows the pattern set by Jesus, who told his followers: “Pay back . . . Caesar’s things to Caesar.”—Mt 22:21; Ro 13:6, 7.

Tiberius Claudius Antoninus Receipt for tax on sales, P.Tebt.0350 RECTO. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Scripture(s)

Ro 13:6
Romans 1
Romans 2
Romans 11
Romans 13
Romans 15
Romans 16