21. And when they abode together in Galilee.] 5. Peter’s tribute money. As Peter’s profession of Christ’s divinity was followed by the prediction of the passion, and this in turn by the transfiguration; so is the manifestation of Christ’s glory in the exorcism followed by another prediction of the passion, and this again by a new miracle confirming the apostles in their faith. The present section treats, therefore, first of the second prediction of the passion, and then of the miracle connected with
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