Matthew 17:10–26

¹⁰And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first?

¹¹But he answering, said to them: Elias indeed shall come, and restore all things.

¹²But I say to you, that Elias is already come, and they knew him not, But have done unto him whatsoever they had a mind. So also the Son of man shall suffer from them.

¹³Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John the Baptist.

¹⁴And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him a man falling down on his knees before him saying:

¹⁵Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much: for he falleth often into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

¹⁶Then Jesus answered and said: O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me.

¹⁷And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

¹⁸Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out?

¹⁹Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain: Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible to you.

²⁰But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.

²¹And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

²²And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. And they were troubled exceedingly.

²³And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the didrachmas, came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your master pay the didrachma?

²⁴He said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive tribute or custom, of their own children, or of strangers?

²⁵And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free.

²⁶But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened it’s mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.