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?”

Cross References

Exodus 38:26

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.

Exodus 30:13

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.

Mark 9:33

And they came to Caperna-um; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”

Nehemiah 10:32

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 5:46

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