Yeah, he says as much.
Why didn’t he pay for the other 11? Or why did the tax collectors even ask “does your teacher pay the tax?” Were there teachers that didn’t pay the tax?
And when he does pay, he gives his reason, and it’s got nothing to do with their authority, it’s so not to hurt their feelings.
As I’ve said in other threads, I believe his compliance with what was obviously a wicked system was more about his timely glorification than about his obedience to the fifth commandment.
That is not to say that he broke the fifth commandment (he even explains why it wouldn’t break the 5th commandment if he didn’t pay), but rather to say that he didn’t need to revolt, he was going to bring down the temple and the Roman Empire anyways, in his time.
Conversely, when Judas brought to mob to arrest Jesus and Peter defends his teacher, it’s already established by that point that this was his time, and it was not that Peter was sinning by defending him, but rather by being an impediment to the timing which he ordained.
Again I’m not an libertarian, and certainly not an anarchist, but I don’t believe it is post-mil for Christians in a Christian nation to expect their government to abide God’s law. See Samuel 8:4-18.