Matthew 17:16-27 ▼

16 I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn't heal him.|

17 Jesus replied, |You unbelieving and perverted generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!|

18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, |Why couldn't we drive it out?|

20 He told them, |Because of your lack of faith. I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

21 But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.|

22 While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus told them, |The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands.

23 They will kill him, but he will be raised on the third day.| Then they were filled with grief.

24 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came up to Peter and asked, |Your teacher pays the temple tax, doesn't he?|

25 He answered, |Yes.| When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, |What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects, or from foreigners?|

26 |From foreigners,| he replied. So Jesus told him, |In that case, the subjects are exempt.

27 However, so that we don't offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth, and you will find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you.|