Matthew 17 - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

1 with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”

6When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces, and were filled with awe.

7But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.”

8And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.

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22 in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men,

23and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.

24 Ex 30.13; 38.26. When they came to Caperna-um, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, “Does not your teacher pay the tax?”

25Rom 13.7; Mt 22.17-21. He said, “Yes.” And when he came home, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their sons or from others?”

26And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.

27Mt 5.29; 18.6-9; Jn 6.61; 1 Cor 8.13. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”