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    Matthew 17

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    A tax question ends with Peter casting a hook into the sea and finding, in the first fish’s mouth, the exact four-drachma coin required for Jesus and himself.

    A mountain, three shelters, and a voicevv. 1–13

    Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, where his face shines like the sun and his clothes become white as light. Moses and Elijah appear, talking with him, and Peter—quite unable to leave a dazzling visitation unfurnished—offers to build three shelters. A bright cloud interrupts the building programme with a voice naming Jesus as the beloved Son. The disciples fall facedown in terror; Jesus touches them, and when they look up, the visitors have vanished. On the way down, Jesus speaks of Elijah’s coming and going, and the disciples understand that he means John the Baptist.

    The boy the disciples could not healvv. 14–20

    A man kneels before Jesus and begs for mercy for his son, who suffers seizures and repeatedly falls into fire or water. The disciples have failed to heal him, so Jesus rebukes the demon; it leaves, and the boy is healed at once. Later, privately, the disciples ask why they could not drive it out. Jesus answers with a mustard seed, a mountain, and nothing less than the possibility that the mountain will move.

    The coin in the fishvv. 22–27

    In Galilee, Jesus tells the disciples that he will be delivered into human hands, killed, and raised on the third day; they are deeply grieved, with the resurrection sitting in the sentence and grief taking the whole chair. In Capernaum, collectors ask Peter whether his Teacher pays the two-drachma tax. Jesus explains that sons are exempt, but chooses not to offend them. Peter is sent to the sea, where the first fish he catches will be carrying a four-drachma coin—the precise amount for both taxes.

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    1. Matt 17:1After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

    2. Matt 17:2There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

    3. Matt 17:3Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus.

    4. Matt 17:4Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, I will put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

    5. Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

    6. Matt 17:6When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown in terror.

    7. Matt 17:7Then Jesus came over and touched them. “Get up,” He said. “Do not be afraid.”

    8. Matt 17:8And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.

    9. Matt 17:9As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Do not tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

    10. Matt 17:10The disciples asked Him, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

    11. Matt 17:11Jesus replied, “Elijah does indeed come, and he will restore all things.

    12. Matt 17:12But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him whatever they wished. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

    13. Matt 17:13Then the disciples understood that He was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

    14. Matt 17:14When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him.

    15. Matt 17:15“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

    16. Matt 17:16I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

    17. Matt 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

    18. Matt 17:18Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

    19. Matt 17:19Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

    20. Matt 17:20“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

    21. Matt 17:22When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.

    22. Matt 17:23They will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised to life.” And the disciples were deeply grieved.

    23. Matt 17:24After they had arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Does your Teacher pay the two drachmas?”

    24. Matt 17:25“Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”

    25. Matt 17:26“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus said to him.

    26. Matt 17:27“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”

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    • 20Luke 17:6And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
    • 20Mark 11:23“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.
    • 20Luke 1:37For no word from God will ever fail.”
    • 20Luke 18:27But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
    • 20Matthew 21:21“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
    • 20Mark 9:23“If You can?” echoed Jesus. “All things are possible to him who believes!”
    • 201 Corinthians 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
    • 20Matthew 13:31He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.
    • 20John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
    • 20Mark 4:31It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds sown upon the earth.
    • 22Matthew 16:21From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
    • 5Matthew 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
    • 20Hebrews 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
    • 5Matthew 12:18“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
    • 1Luke 9:28–36About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.
    • 2Psalms 104:2He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

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