John Trapp on Mark 12:14-23

Verse 14. To give tribute] This tribute the Jewes then paid to the Romanes, as now they doe to the Turks, for the very heads they wear. And yet they had the face to say to our Saviour, Joh. 8. 33. We never were in bondage to any man. But perhaps these Jewes were of the Sect of Judas Gaulonites, who would not beIoseph. lib 18. cap. 2. drawn by any torments to acknowledge any Lord upon earth; beleeving that God only was to be held their Lord and King.