Luke 20:26

Jesus’ answer in Luke 20:25 has become so commonplace to us that we fail to appreciate the impact it must have had on those who heard it for the first time. Jesus’ critics could not criticize either His logic or His statement. Wisely they kept quiet (cf. Luke 14:6; Luke 20:40), a fact that only Luke noted. Luke also drew attention to their failure to "catch" (NIV "trap," Gr. epilambanomai) Jesus, which he earlier identified as their purpose (Luke 20:20).

This teaching would have been helpful to Luke’s original readers who, as all Christians do, had responsibilities to pagan political authorities as well as to God.