Isaiah 19:8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
8 Those who fish will mourn;
all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will languish.
Amos 4:2
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 The Lord God has sworn by his holiness:
The time is surely coming upon you,
when they shall take you away with hooks,
even the last of you with fish-hooks.
Matthew 17:27
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
27 However, so that we do not give offence to them, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a coin;[a] take that and give it to them for you and me.’
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- Matthew 17:27 Gk stater; the stater was worth two didrachmas
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