Matthew 17:26 KJV,ASV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:24-27

Matthew 17:24-Daniel : . Temple Tribute.— Mt. only. The collectors of the half-shekel, expected from every Jew towards the maintenance of the Temple, and usually paid just before the Passover, ask Peter if his master fulfilled the obligation, and are told that He did. In conversation with Peter, Jesus apparently asserts that the Temple should be maintained by taxes on Gentiles, while Jews go free. But a better interpretation is that, as sons of the Messianic Kingdom, He and His followers are... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 17:24-27

The Jews were by God’s law, Exodus 30:13, obliged to pay a half shekel, which was for the service of the sanctuary, Exodus 30:16, this was paid every year. The half shekel amounted in our money to fifteen pence, or thereabouts. Whether this were the tribute money here demanded and paid, some doubt, and say that the Romans having the Jews now under their power, imposed this payment upon every head, as a tribute to the emperor; which being a customary payment, they thought the Jews would less... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 17:22-27

CRITICAL NOTESMatthew 17:22. While they abode.—See R.V. margin. While they were sojourning in Galilee on their way back—on their return from the northern parts about Cæsarea Philippi (Morison).Matthew 17:24. Tribute money (τὰ δίδραχμα)—“The double drachma;” a sum equal to two Attic drachmas, and corresponding to the Jewish “half-shekel,” payable, towards the maintenance of the temple and its services, by every male Jew of twenty years old and upwards. For the origin of this annual tax see... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 17:1-27

Let's turn now in our Bibles to Matthew chapter seventeen. The seventeenth chapter of Matthew actually begins with the twenty-eighth verse of the sixteenth chapter. It's unfortunate that the men who divided the Bible into chapters and verses made the chapter distinction where they did. They should have taken and included the twenty-eighth verse of chapter sixteen into chapter seventeen, and it would have eliminated a lot of questions. Because Jesus is talking to His disciples there at Cesarea... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 17:1-27

Matthew 17:2 . He was transfigured before them. Μεταμορφωθη , was transformed before them. Matthew, Mark, and Luke record this vision; and name the three selected witnesses. Peter had just confessed the Divinity of the Lord, and received a blessing. James, the first martyr of the twelve, and John, had been surnamed sons of thunder. Now they were admitted to see the glory which the twelve had confessed; and it was, as it would seem, afore to prepare them to attest the agony of the Lord in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 17:26

26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. Ver. 26. Then are the children free ] q.d. And much more I (who am the natural, the only begotten Son of that King everlasting, the heir of all) am privileged from payments. Yet because few knew, what Peter did, that he was the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Son also of David, according to the flesh, lest by his example he should occasion and encourage either the Jews to deny payment, or the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 17:26

Matthew 17:17 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 15:3 - General 1 Samuel 17:25 - free in Israel Luke 9:50 - Forbid Luke 16:8 - in 1 Thessalonians 5:22 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 17:26

Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.Then are the sons free — The sense is, This is paid for the use of the house of God. But I am the Son of God. Therefore I am free from any obligation of paying this to my own Father. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 17:26

26. Then are the children free Kings do not take tribute of their own sons. Now of the temple God is king, and I am his Son. Why then, Peter, did you so far forget my Sonship as to pledge me to become a tribute-payer? Peter had but lately confessed his Lord in the most solemn style, at Cesarea Philippi, as Son of the living God. He had but a few days previously heard God’s voice, on the mount of transfiguration, proclaim Jesus as his beloved Son. Why then should God’s Son pay tribute... read more