Who was Caesar when Jesus spoke in Mark 12:15-16; "Render unto Caesar....Render unto God ...." And how old was Jesus?

Augustus was emperor when Jesus was born (Luke 2). He was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.

And Tiberius was emperor when Jesus died (Luke 3) -- 14 AD to 37 AD

Jesus' ministry was approx 30-33 AD

So it would have been Tiberius

Do you really think people carried around notepads and passed these exact quotes on for hundreds of years? It's a shame those notepads weren't preserved by dedicated early Christians! I wonder why. Anyway, the Caesar being referred to would have been Julius (Octavian).

(Caeʹsar).

A Roman family name that became a title. In 46 B.C.E., Gaius Julius Caesar was appointed dictator of Rome for ten years, but he was murdered in 44 B.C.E. Caesar was the name of his family (Gaius being his personal name and Julius that of his clan or house).

Jesus’ only recorded reference to Caesar is when laying down the principle: “Pay back, therefore, Caesar’s things to Caesar, but God’s things to God.” (Mt 22:17-21; Mr 12:14-17; Lu 20:22-25)

The question evoking this statement was with regard to the payment of “head tax” by Jews to the Roman state. It therefore dealt with an established law or regular practice and hence neither the question nor the answer was evidently intended to be restricted to Tiberius, then ruling. (Compare Mt 17:25.)

“Caesar” meant, or symbolized, the civil authority, the state, represented by its duly appointed representatives, called “the superior authorities” by Paul and expressed by Peter as “the king” and his “governors.”—Ro 13:1-7; Tit 3:1; 1Pe 2:13-17

Between 30 and 33. That's when His public ministry occurred.

Could be the current Roman ruler, Tiberius Julius Caesar.

Could be the original famous Julius Caesar.

Whoever it was specifically, I think it's safe to say that everyone understood Jesus's explicit meaning. By "Caesar" Jesus was referring to worldly governments and powers, whatever they may be.

mark was an unknown greek who lived in the third century he made all the quotes up as there is no way he had any knowledge of private conversations or sermons from 300 years earlier

Tiberius, and I don't know.

> Well, yes, Jesus was puportedly between 30-33, but I don't know which of those when he said that.

>> Someone needs to learn history. Tiberius was most definitely in power when Jesus was supposedly preaching.

He was referring to Sid Caesar, the comedian in the last half of the 20th century.

the reference to caeser was to the ruling govt in place. Paying all of ones owed taxes to caeser.

Caesar = the government.