Matthew 17:24

When they arrived at Capernaum, those who were in charge of collecting the half-shekel Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, “Your teacher does pay the half-shekel tax, doesn't he?”

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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

23They will kill him, but on the third day he will rise again.” The disciples were filled with sadness.

25“Yes, of course,” Peter replied. When he returned to where they were staying, Jesus anticipated the issue. “What do you think, Simon?” Jesus asked him. “Do the kings of this world collect their taxes and duties from their own sons or from others?”

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Cross References

Exodus 38:26This represents a beka per person, or half a shekel (using the sanctuary shekel standard) from everyone twenty years of age or older who had been censused, a total of 603,550 men.

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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