We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Matthew 17:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) When they came to Caperna-um, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, “Does not your teacher pay the tax?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the half shekel [the temple tax] went up to Peter and said, Does not your Teacher pay the half shekel? [Exod. 30:13; 38:26.] American Standard Version (1901) And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your teacher pay the half-shekel? Common English Bible When they came to Capernaum, the people who collected the half-shekel temple tax came to Peter and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” Catholic Public Domain Version He said, "Yes." And when he had entered into the house, Jesus went before him, saying: "How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or the census tax: from their own sons or from foreigners?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom? of their own children, or of strangers? |
We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.
a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for every one who was numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
And they came to Caperna-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”