Matthew 17:16-27 ▼

16 I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to heal him.|

17 Jesus answered, |You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me.|

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

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

20 He told them, |It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you.|

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22 When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, |The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.| And they became greatly distressed.

24 After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, |Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn't he?|

25 He said, |Yes.| When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, |What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes--from their sons or from foreigners?|

26 After he said, |From foreigners,| Jesus said to him, |Then the sons are free.

27 But so that we don't offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.|