Matthew 17:16-27 ▼

16 <V 17:15>And I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.”

17 <V 17:16>Then Jesus responded by saying: “What an unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me.”

18 <V 17:17>And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

19 <V 17:18>Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why were we unable to cast him out?”

20 <V 17:19>Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief. Amen I say to you, certainly, if you will have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And nothing will be impossible for you.

21 <V 17:20>But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”

22 <V 17:21>And when they were conversing together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: “The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

23 <V 17:22>And they will kill him, but he will rise again on the third day.” And they were extremely saddened.

24 <V 17:23>And when they had arrived at Capernaum, those who collected the half shekel approached Peter, and they said to him, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the half shekel?”

25 <V 17:24>He said, “Yes.” And when he had entered into the house, Jesus went before him, saying: “How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or the census tax: from their own sons or from foreigners?”

26 <V 17:25>And he said, “From foreigners.” Jesus said to him: “Then the sons are free.

27 <V 17:26>But so that we may not become an obstacle to them: go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish that is brought up, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them, for me and for you.”