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The Good News According to Matthew 17, World English Bible |
The Good News According to Matthew, Chapter 17
{17:1} After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John
his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.
{17:2} He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun,
and his garments became as white as the light. {17:3} Behold, Moses
and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
{17:4} Peter answered, and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us
to be here. If you want, let's make three tents here: one for you, one
for Moses, and one for Elijah."
{17:5} While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud
overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying,
"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
{17:6} When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and
were very afraid. {17:7} Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get
up, and don't be afraid." {17:8} Lifting up their eyes, they saw no
one, except Jesus alone. {17:9} As they were coming down from the
mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Don't tell anyone what you
saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead."
{17:10} His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes
say that Elijah must come first?"
{17:11} Jesus answered them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and will
restore all things, {17:12} but I tell you that Elijah has come
already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they
wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them." {17:13}
Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the
Baptizer.
{17:14} When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling
down to him, saying, {17:15} "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is
epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire,
and often into the water. {17:16} So I brought him to your disciples,
and they could not cure him."
{17:17} Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long
will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to
me." {17:18} Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy
was cured from that hour.
{17:19} Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why
weren't we able to cast it out?"
{17:20} He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most
certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed,
you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will
move; and nothing will be impossible for you. {17:21} But this kind
doesn't go out except by prayer and fasting."
{17:22} While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The
Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men, {17:23}
and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up."
They were exceedingly sorry. {17:24} When they had come to
Capernaum, those who collected the [1>]didrachma coins[<1] came to
Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?" {17:25} He
said, "Yes."
When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do
you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or
tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
{17:26} Peter said to him, "From strangers."
Jesus said to him, "Therefore the children are exempt. {17:27} But,
lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up
the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will
find a [2>]stater coin.[<2] Take that, and give it to them for me and
you."
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Footnotes:
[1] {17:24} A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about
as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days' wages. It was commonly
used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth
one half shekel of silver.
[2] {17:27} A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two
Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover
the half-shekel temple tax for two people.
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