Matthew 17:24

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.]

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:32

Also we pledge ourselves to pay yearly a third of a shekel for the service expenses of the house of our God [which are]:

Exodus 30:13

This is what everyone shall give as he joins those already numbered: a half shekel, in terms of the sanctuary shekel, a shekel being twenty gerahs; a half shekel as an offering to the Lord.

Exodus 38:26

A beka for each man, that is, half a shekel, by the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who was counted, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward can you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?

Mark 9:33

And they arrived at Capernaum; and when [they were] in the house, He asked them, What were you discussing and arguing about on the road?