Taxation by the State was a crime against their law and God.

Oh, that Law! It was not the Roman law.

It was their law, what they called God's law.
There were the zealots, who murdered anybody who broke this law.

And for a procurator to punish a zealot caught red-handed was to raise a riot or an insurrection.
Everything, with these strange people, was done in the name of God.

There were what we Romans called the _thaumaturgi_.