Matthew 17:10–27

¹⁰And his disciples questioned him, saying, ‘Why then do the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first?’ ¹¹And Jesus answering said to them, ‘Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things, ¹²and I say to you—Elijah did already come, and they did not know him, but did with him whatever they would, so also the Son of Man is about to suffer by them.’ ¹³Then understood the disciples that concerning John the Baptist he spake to them.

¹⁴And when they came unto the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling down to him, ¹⁵and saying, ‘Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water, ¹⁶and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.’ ¹⁷And Jesus answering said, ‘O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;’ ¹⁸and Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour. ¹⁹Then the disciples having come to Jesus by himself, said, ‘Wherefore were we not able to cast him out?’ ²⁰And Jesus said to them, ‘Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you, ²¹and this kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting.’

²²And while they are living in Galilee, Jesus said to them, ‘The Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men, ²³and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,’ and they were exceeding sorry.

²⁴And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, ‘Your teacher—doth he not pay the didrachms?’ He saith, ‘Yes.’ ²⁵And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, ‘What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth—from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?’ ²⁶Peter saith to him, ‘From the strangers.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Then are the sons free; ²⁷but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.’

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