Matthew 17
The
Transfiguration
17 After six days JESUS took with HIM Peter, James and John the brother
of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.
2 There HE was transfigured before them. His face shone like the
sun, and HIS clothes became as white as the light.
3 Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking
with JESUS.
4 Peter 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 While HE was still speaking, a
bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is MY SON, WHOM I LOVE; WITH HIM I
AM WELL PLEASED. Listen to HIM!’
6 When the disciples heard this,
they fell facedown to the ground, terrified.
7 But JESUS came and touched them. ‘Get up,’ HE said. ‘Don’t be afraid.’
8 When they
looked up, they saw no one except JESUS.
9 As they were coming down the
mountain, JESUS
instructed them, ‘Don’t
tell anyone what you have seen, until THE SON OF MAN HAS BEEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD.’
10 The disciples asked HIM, ‘Why then
do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?’
11 JESUS
replied, ‘To be
sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.
12 But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they
did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the
same way THE SON OF MAN
is going to suffer at their hands.’
13 Then the disciples understood that
HE was talking to them about John the Baptist.
JESUS Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy
14 When they came to the crowd, a man
approached JESUS
and knelt before him.
15 ‘LORD, have
mercy on my son,’ he said. ‘He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He
often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they
could not heal him.’
17 ‘You unbelieving and perverse generation,’ JESUS replied, ‘how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put
up with you? Bring the boy here to me.’
18 JESUS
rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.
19 Then the disciples came to JESUS in private and
asked, ‘Why couldn’t we drive it out?’
20 HE replied, ‘Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if
you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be
impossible for you.’
JESUS Predicts HIS Death a Second
Time
22 When they came together in
Galilee, HE said to them, ‘THE SON
OF MAN is going to be delivered into the hands of men.
23 They will kill HIM, and on the third day HE
will be raised to life.’ And
the disciples were filled with grief.
The Temple Tax
24 After JESUS and HIS disciples arrived in
Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and
asked, ‘Doesn’t YOUR
TEACHER pay the temple tax?”
25 ‘Yes, HE does,’ he replied.
When Peter came into the house, JESUS was the first to speak. ‘What do you think, Simon?’ HE asked. ‘From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and
taxes—from their own children or from others?’
26 ‘From others,’ Peter answered.
‘Then the children are exempt,’ JESUS
said to him.
27 ‘But so that we may not cause offense, go to the
lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and
you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for MY tax and
yours.’"
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