Says the book Daily Life in the Time of Jesus: “The taxes that [the Jews had] to pay in money and in kind were exceedingly heavy, and they were all the heavier in that two forms of taxation ran side by side for them, civil taxes and religious taxes; and neither was light. ”
मत्ती, जो लेवी के तौर पर भी जाना जाता था, पहले महसूल लेनेवाला था, और वह एक विशेष बोझ से अच्छी तरह परिचित था जिसे लोग उठा रहे थे ।