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Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection a Second Time
22 Now [as] they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men,
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and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised." And they were extremely distressed.
Paying the Double Drachma Temple Tax
24 Now [when] they arrived in Capernaum, the ones who collected the double drachma [tax] came up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the double drachma [tax]?"
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He said, "Yes." And [when he] came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes--from their own sons, or from foreigners?"
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And [when he] said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.
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Footnotes 6
- [a] *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were gathering")
- [b] Or possibly "of people," in a generic sense, although the reference here may be to the specific group responsible for Jesus' arrest, where it is unlikely women were present
- [c] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("arrived")
- [d] This refers to the half-shekel annual tax paid by Jewish males to support the temple; over time the name of the coin commonly used to pay the tax came to be used for the tax itself
- [e] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal
- [f] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("said") which is understood as temporal
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