Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 17:26
Then are the sons free — The sense is, This is paid for the use of the house of God. But I am the Son of God. Therefore I am free from any obligation of paying this to my own Father.
Then are the sons free — The sense is, This is paid for the use of the house of God. But I am the Son of God. Therefore I am free from any obligation of paying this to my own Father.
MATTHEW 17:26 eivpo,ntoj de, {B} The reading eivpo,ntoj de,, lacking a substantive, was deemed to be the reading that best explains the origin of the other readings. After :Ara … ui`oi,, which may b...
Verse Matthew 17:26. _THEN ARE THE CHILDREN FREE_] As this money is levied for the support of that temple of which I am the Lord, then I am not obliged to pay the tax; and my disciples, like the pries...
AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO CAPERNAUM - See the notes at Matthew 4:13. THEY THAT RECEIVED TRIBUTE - In the original this is, they who received the didrachma, or double drachma. The drachma was a Grecia...
5. THE COMING GLORY; the Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. The Tribute Money. CHAPTER 17 1. The Transfiguration. (Matthew 17:1 .) 2. The Helpless Disciples and the Power of the King. (M...
TEMPLE TRIBUTE. Mt. only. The collectors of the half-shekel, expected from every Jew towards the maintenance of the Temple, and usually paid just before the Passover, ask Peter if his master fulfilled...
THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION (Matthew 17:1-8)...
When they came to Capernaum, those who received the half-shekel Temple tax came to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the tax?" Peter said, "He does pay it." When he had gone into the house, b...
THEN. It followeth, then, that....
_then are the children free_ "the sons are exempt from tribute." The deduction is, "Shall He whom thou hast rightly named the Son of God pay tribute to the Temple of his Father?" The Romans called the...
ΕἸΠΌΝΤΟΣ ΔῈ (אBCL) for λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος, not supported by the later uncials. 26. ἘΛΕΎΘΕΡΟΊ ΕἸΣΙΝ ΟἹ ΥἹΟΊ, ‘the sons are exempt from tribute.’ The deduction is, ‘Shall he whom thou hast rightly nam...
JESUS PAYS THE HALF SHEKEL OF THE SANCTUARY Peculiar to St Matthew. ΤᾺ ΔΊΔΡΑΧΜΑ. This was not a tribute levied by Cæsar or by Herod, but the half-shekel (Exodus 30:13) paid annually by every Jew into...
Ver 24. And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, "Doth not your master pay tribute?" 25. He saith, "Yes." And when he was come into the house, Je...
_JESUS IN HIS HUMILITY, PAYING TAX MATTHEW 17:24-27:_ It was costly to operate the temple. The ransom tax was used for that purpose. (Exodus 30:11-16) The tax authorities questioned Peter about whethe...
ΕΊΠΌΝΤΟΣ _aor. part. act. masc. gen. sing. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) _part._ Используется как _gen. abs._: "после того как он сказал" ΈΦ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΦΗΜΊ (G5346) говорить, ΆΡ (G686) тогда; отсылка к...
HE SAITH, YES— Peter told the collectors, that his Master would pay tribute, and consequently, made a sort of promise to procure it for them; yet when he considered the matter more minutely, he was af...
Section 45 JESUS QUIZZES PETER ABOUT TEMPLE TAXES TEXT: 17:24-27 24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your teacher pay the hal...
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, OF STRANGERS - or, 'Of those not their children.' JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THEN ARE THE CH...
24 See Exo_30:11-16; Exo_38:25-26. 24 According to the law every one who was numbered in Israel, being over twenty years of age, paid half a shekel to shelter his soul (Exo_30:12-14). It was used for...
THE TRANSFIGURATION 1-8. The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28). St. Leo rightly apprehended the historical situation when he said that in the Transfiguration the principal object aimed at was tha...
THE HALFSHEKEL OR TEMPLE TRIBUTE (peculiar to St. Matthew). Jesus is asked to pay the usual tax towards the maintenance of the temple services. As son of God He claims exemption, yet pays lest He shou...
THEN ARE THE CHILDREN (RV 'the sons') free] Therefore Jesus, being the Son of the Heavenly King, is free from the Temple tax. 'Children' (sons) is not meant to include the apostles or Christians gener...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 17 JESUS CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE 17:1-13 V1 Six days later Jesus took Peter, James and John (who was James’s brother) with him. He le...
OF STRANGERS. — The answer must be looked at from the Eastern rather than the European theory of taxation. To the Jews, as to other Eastern nations, direct taxation was hateful as a sign of subjugatio...
CHAPTER 14 Last Words at Capernaum - Matthew 17:22; Matthew 18:1 THE TEMPLE TRIBUTE Matthew 17:22 THE way southward lies through Galilee; but the time of Galilee's visitation is now over, so Jesus a...
ἄραγε on the force of this particle _vide_ at Matthew 7:20. The γε lends emphasis to the exemption of the υἱοί. It virtually replies to Peter's ναί = then you must admit, what your answer to the colle...
_The temple tax_. In Mt. only, but unmistakably a genuine historic reminiscence in the main. Even Holtzmann (H. C.) regards it as history, only half developed into legend....
PAY TRIBUTE WHERE IT IS DUE Matthew 17:22-27 All Jews were required to pay the half-shekel for the maintenance of the Temple services. See Exodus 30:13. As God's own Son, our Lord might surely have c...
"After six days." Days of silence. No record have we of what transpired in those days. The strange declarations of the Cross had crushed the hearts of these men. Now to three of their number, as speci...
But that we may not. Jesus Christ pays the tribute, not as one subject to the law, but as consulting the infirmity of the people; but he first shews himself exempt from the above example, lest his dis...
PAYING TRIBUTE Matthew 17:24-27. “And they, having come into Capernaum, those receiving the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Does not your Teacher also pay the half-shekel? He says, Yes. And when...
"And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? (25) He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus preven...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
Jesus leads them up into a high mountain, and there is transfigured before them: "His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." Moses and Elias appeared also, talking with Hi...
PETER SAITH UNTO HIM,.... The Vulgate Latin reads, "and he said": and so the Ethiopic, and Munster's Hebrew Gospel; but without doubt Peter is meant, and rightly expressed; whose answer to Christ's qu...
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. Ver. 26. _Then are the children free_] _q.d._ And much more I (who am the natural, the only begotten Son of that...
_When they were come to Capernaum_ Where our Lord now dwelt. Hence the collectors of the sacred tribute did not ask him for it till he came to this the ordinary place of his residence. _They that rece...
FREE; not expected to pay tribute. According to that rule, Christ, the Son of God, for the support of whose worship the money was paid would be free....
PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, OF STRANGERS. JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THEN ARE THE CHILDREN FREE. Capernaum was still considered the home of Jesus, and here He returned for a brief visit. Here the receivers of th...
The question of the Temple-tax:...
Only six days intervened before the three disciples witnessed the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus. Luke says, "about eight days after these things," for no doubt he counts the day the Lord spoke, an...
24-27 Peter felt sure that his Master was ready to do what was right. Christ spoke first to give him proof that no thought can be withholden from him. We must never decline our duty for fear of givin...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 17:27"....
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII and Peter replies not from their own sons, but "from strangers," then Jesus says about such as are strangers to the kings of the earth, and on account of being...
Matthew 17:26 Peter G4074 said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 From G575 strangers G245 Jesus G2424 said G5346 ...
‘And when he said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the sons are free.” ' When Peter necessarily replies, ‘of strangers', Jesus then points out that therefore the sons, (and especially...
JESUS AGAIN REVEALS HIS SONSHIP (17:24-27). In contrast with man's coming treatment of Him Jesus continues to reveal His Sonship preparatory to what is coming. What follows is not just an outlandish d...
The definite details as to time and place show that our Lord repeated His prediction of His sufferings (chap. Matthew 16:21-23). Our Lord now left the foot of the mount and passed through Galilee (Mar...
Matthew 17:26. SURELY THEN THE SONS ARE FREE. Peter had lately confessed that Jesus was ‘the Son of the living God;' and yet now so readily admits the obligation to pay the temple-tax. The real Temple...
THE SONS (ο υιο). Christ, of course, and the disciples also in contrast with the Jews. Thus a reply to Peter's prompt "Yes." Logically (αραγε) free from the temple tax, but practically not as he pr...
CONTENTS: The transfiguration of Jesus Christ. The powerless disciples, unable to heal a lunatic, and the mighty Christ. Resurrection again foretold. Miracle of the tribute money. CHARACTERS: God, Je...
Matthew 17:2. _He was transfigured before them._ Μεταμορφωθη, was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the three selected witnesses. Peter had just confessed t...
THAT MEANS THE CITIZENS DON'T HAVE TO PAY. Jesus says that he does not really need to pay the temple tax. The Son of the King does not pay tax....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 17:25 THEN THE SONS ARE FREE. Because the temple is God the Father’s own house, the Son and those he has brought into the Father’s family ...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 17:22. WHILE THEY ABODE.—See R.V. margin. While they were sojourning in Galilee on their way back—on their return from the northern parts about Cæsarea Philippi (_Morison_)....
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 17:1 _The Transfiguration of Jesus_._ _(Mark 9:2; Luke 9:28.) This mysterious event was intended primarily to confirm the faith of the three apostles who were to h
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Matthew chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of Matthew actually begins with the twenty-eighth verse of the sixteenth chapter. It's unfortunate that the men who d...
SEEING CHRIST IN MATTHEW Matthew 17:21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In Matthew we have decided to address ourselves to Christ's relationship to His people. For our introduction we will center our thought on...