Before Jesus said that, the Pharisees had asked him whether it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not. Jesus didn't say no, it's true, but neither did he say yes. Instead he asked whose image and whose likeness was on the Denarius. He asked to see the coin. On the coin, it said that Caesar was divine. When Jesus said "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and to God the things that are God's," it is entirely possible that he meant that people needed to stop glorifying Ceasar like he was a God and remember that they owed their allegiance to Him, not to…  Read more earthly governments. This is the politically incorrect interpretation you were never told. There's more than one way to interpret that passage, and in my view, yours makes less sense, because Jesus did not simply say "Yes." Do your own research on this.