Matthew 17:23-25

International Standard Version

²³ They will kill him, but he will be raised on the third day.” Then they were filled with grief.

Questions about the Temple Tax

²⁴ When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax^[a] came up to Peter and asked, “Your teacher pays the temple tax,^[b] doesn’t he?”

²⁵ He answered, “Yes.”

When Peter^[c] went home,^[d] Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects,^[e] or from foreigners?”