Quote Originally Posted by eagle2180 View Post
I read it as Paul advising the Church in Rome on how not to get themselves killed. Pay taxes, respect authority.....It’s similar to the response Jesus gave in Matthew 22:21.
Certainly could be considering where Paul was when he wrote it, but we can't get caught up in Romans 13 being the word of Paul. It is the word of God.

The authorities were trying to trap Jesus. Like many other times he shushed them.