Says the book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus: “The taxes that [the Jews had] to pay in money and in kind were exceedingly heavy, and they were all the heavier in that two forms of taxation ran side by side for them, civil taxes and religious taxes; and neither was light. ”
Jeesuse - aegset elu käsitlevas raamatus (Daily Life in the Time of Jesus) öeldakse: „Maksud, mida [juudid pidid] maksma kas rahas või mingil muul moel, olid äärmiselt rängad, ja veelgi rängemaks muutis neid see, et samaaegselt tuli neil maksta kahesuguseid makse: riigimakse ja religioosseid makse; ning kummadki polnud kergete killast. ”