¹³ Each person who is counted must give a small piece of silver as a sacred offering to the Lord. (This payment is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)

²⁵ (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel,^[a] which equals twenty gerahs.)

⁴⁷ collect five pieces of silver^[a] for each of them (each piece weighing the same as the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs).

¹² The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.^[a] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.^[b]

Payment of the Temple Tax

²⁴ On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax^[a] came to Peter and asked him, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the Temple tax?”

²⁶ This silver came from the tax collected from each man registered in the census. (The tax is one beka, which is half a shekel,^[a] based on the sanctuary shekel.) The tax was collected from 603,550 men who had reached their twentieth birthday.

²⁴ Pilate saw that he wasn’t getting anywhere and that a riot was developing. So he sent for a bowl of water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. The responsibility is yours!”