And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
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Gill's Exposition
And when they were come to Capernaum,.... Called Christ's own city, Mat 9:1 where he dwelt some time Mat 4:13 and Peter had an house, Mat 8:14 "they that received tribute money", or the "didrachms";…
And when they were come to Capernaum - See the notes at Mat 4:13. They that received tribute - In the original this is, they who received the didrachma, or double drachma. The drachma was a Grecian…
We have here an account of Christ's paying tribute.
I. Observe how it was demanded, Mat 17:24. Christ was now at Capernaum, his headquarters, where he mostly resided; he did not keep from thence, to…
Cambridge Bible
Jesus pays the half shekel of the Sanctuary
Peculiar to St Matthew
24. they that received i. e. "the collectors of." After the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple the Jews were…