Matthew 17:25. Jesus spake first to him, anticipated his statement by superhuman knowledge of what had occurred.
Toll or tribute. Duties or taxes. From their sons, or from strangers, i.e., those not of their household.
Verse Matthew 17:25. _HE SAITH, YES._] From this reply of Peter, it is evident that our Lord customarily paid all taxes, tributes, c., which were common among the people wherever he came. The childre...
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...
YES. Showing that the Lord did pay. Compare Matthew 17:27. PREVENTED. anticipated: i.e. spoke first, or forestalled. Greek. _prophthano._ Occurs only here. OF. from. Greek. _apo_, as in Matthew 17:9,...
_prevented_ anticipated him by answering his thoughts. To prevent is (1) to "go before," "to anticipate" then, "to precede" either (2) to aid, or (3) to hinder. _custom or tribute_ taxes (1) indirect...
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...
ΕἸΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΑ, the reading of א*. There is much variation in the MSS. ὅτε ἦλθεν is well supported, but looks like an explanation of the participle. 25. ΠΡΟΈΦΘΑΣΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΌΝ. ‘Anticipated him’ by answering...
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...
ΈΛΘΌΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. (temp.) masc. sing. acc._, _см._ Matthew 17:14. Part., _acc._ согласуется с ΑΎΤΌΝ. ΠΡΟΈΦΘΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΦΘΆΝΩ (G4399) предварять, опережать кого-л. в каком-л. де...
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...
He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of stra...
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...
17:25 Yes. (b-3) Or 'Surely.'...
CUSTOM] i.e. taxes on merchandise. TRIBUTE] i.e. taxes on persons and property....
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...
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...
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...
HE SAITH, YES. — Peter’s answer was ready enough. There was no need for him to inquire further. His Master would pay it now as He had paid it before (this is clearly implied), as every devout Israelit...
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...
_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....
ναί : this prompt, confident answer may be either an inference from Christ's general bearing, as Peter understood it, or a statement of fact implying past payment. ἐλθόντα ἐ. τ. ὁ. The meeting of the...
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...
He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own (m) children, or of s...
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...
25._He saith, Yes. Peter’s _reply contains a modest excuse (580) to satisfy them: “he will pay,” (581) says he; from which we infer that Christ had formerly been accustomed to pay, for _Peter _promise...
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...
HE SAITH, YES,.... Without any hesitation, knowing it had been his master's practice; and therefore as he had done it, did not doubt but he would again: AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE; that is,...
He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of stran...
_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...
PREVENTED HIM; spoke before Peter had said any thing. When the Bible was translated into English, to prevent meant to go before. persons STRANGERS; persons not belonging to the family, not the childre...
HE SAITH, YES. AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE, JESUS PREVENTED HIM, SAYING, WHAT THINKEST THOU, SIMON: OF WHOM DO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TAKE CUSTOM OR TRIBUTE, OF THEIR OWN CHILDREN OR OF STRANG...
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 If, then, the Saviour inquires of Peter, saying, "The kings of the earth from whom do they receive toll or tribute-from their own sons or from strangers? "[88]...
Matthew 17:25 said G3004 (G5719) Yes G3483 And G2532 when G3753 come G1525 (G5627) into G1519 house...
‘He says, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke first to him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? From their sons, or fr...
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...
JESUS SPAKE FIRST TO HIM (προεφθασεν αυτον ο Ιησους λεγων). Here only in the N.T. One example in a papyrus B.C. 161 (Moulton and Milligan, _Vocabulary_). The old idiomatic use of φθανω with the part...
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...
OF COURSE. Peter answered before thinking [as he often did]. JESUS SPOKE UP FIRST. He knew what Peter was thinking. WHO PAYS DUTIES OR TAXES? Not from citizens, but from foreigners. This was the pract...
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...
1 Samuel 17:25; Matthew 22:21; Matthew 3:15; Romans 13:6; Romans 13:7
Yes [ν α ι]. Indicating that Jesus had paid the tax on former occasions. Prevented [π ρ ο ε φ θ α σ ε ν]. Rev., rather awkwardly, but following Tynd., Spake first to him. Prevent, in its older sense,...
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...
Jesus prevented him — Just when St. Peter was going to ask him for it. Of their own sons, or of strangers? — That is, such as are not of their own family....