Matthew 17:24

When they entered Capernaum those who collected the temple tax approached Peter and said, “Does your Teacher not pay the temple tax?”

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In The King James Version

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?

In Context

23and they will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised.” And they were seriously grieved.

25He says, “Yes.” So when they entered the house Jesus anticipated him saying: “Simon, what do you think? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or poll tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

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Matthew Henry on Matthew 17:23-24

Christ's Sufferings Foretold. 22 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: 23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry. Christ here foretels his own sufferings; he began to do it before ( ch. xvi. 21 ); and, finding that it was to his disciples a hard saying, he saw it necessary to repeat it. There are some things which God speaketh once, yea twice, and yet man perceiveth it not. Observe… Read the whole commentary →

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