24 [a]And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received poll money, came to Peter, and said, Doth [b]not your Master [c]pay [d]poll money?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 17:24 In that that Christ doth willingly obey Caesar’s edicts, he showeth that civil policy is not taken away by the Gospel.
  2. Matthew 17:24 He denieth not, but he asketh.
  3. Matthew 17:24 Ought he not to pay?
  4. Matthew 17:24 They that were from twenty years of age to fifty, paid half a shekel of the Sanctuary, Exod. 30:13. This was an Attic didrachma which the Romans exacted, after they had subdued Judea.

The Temple Tax

24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax(A) came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

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