Matthew 17:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the temple tax?”

Cross References

Exodus 38:26

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel) for everyone who was counted in the census, from twenty years old and up, for six hundred three thousand, five hundred fifty men.

Exodus 30:13

This is what each one who is registered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the Lord.

Mark 9:33

Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”

Nehemiah 10:32

We also lay on ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Matthew 5:46

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