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Mat 17:24 — And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute [money] came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

when		Mar 9:33
tribute		"""Gr. didrachma, in value fifteen pence."" Exd 30:13; Exd 38:26; This tribute seems to have been the half shekel which every male among the Jews paid yearly for the support of the temple, and which was continued by them, wherever dispersed, till after the time of Vespasian."

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when

Mar 9:33

And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?

tribute

	Exd 30:13	This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel [is] twenty gerahs:) an half shekel [shall be] the offering of the LORD.
	Exd 38:26	A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men].

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 17:24," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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