Matthew 17:27
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
KJV
ἵνα δὲ μὴ σκανδαλίσωμεν αὐτούς, πορευθεὶς εἰς θάλασσαν βάλε ἄγκιστρον καὶ τὸν ἀναβάντα πρῶτον ἰχθὺν ἆρον, καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ εὑρήσεις στατῆρα· ἐκεῖνον λαβὼν δὸς αὐτοῖς ἀντὶ ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ.
Greek NT
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a shekel: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
ASV
but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'
YLT
But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”
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In the original Greek
26 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἴρω
airo
verb · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βάλλω
ballo
verb · 125×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
θάλασσα
thalassa
noun · 91×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πορεύομαι
poreuomai
verb · 155×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
σκανδαλίζω
skandalizo
verb · 29×
στατήρ
stater
noun · 1×
στόμα
stoma
noun · 78×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀναβαίνω
anabaino
verb · 81×
ἀνοίγω
anoigo
verb · 76×
ἀντί
anti
preposition · 22×
ἄγκιστρον
agkistron
noun · 1×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἰχθύς
ichthus
noun · 20×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: εἰς | WH/Treg/NA: εἰς | NIV/RP: + τὴν
- εἰς — SBLGNT
- εἰς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
- + τὴν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀναβάντα | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀναβάντα | RP: ἀναβαίνοντα
- ἀναβάντα — SBLGNT
- ἀναβάντα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀναβαίνοντα — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§586Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church.359 He even identified himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God's definitive dwelling-place among men.360 Therefore his being put to bodily death36…
Of the constant falsehood of the devil, and of the powers and governments of the world, which we ought to obey, inasmuch as they are appointed of God, not of the devil. 1. As therefore the devil lied at the beginning, so did he also in the end, when he said, All these are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give them. Matthew 4:9; Luke 4:6 For it is not he who has app…
2. What then says Christ? He did not set Himself against it, neither made He any defense, but straightway blames them again, plucking down their confidence, and signifying that he who commits great sins ought not to be strict with others concerning small matters. What? When you ought to be blamed, says He, do ye even blame? But do thou observe, how when it is His will to set as…
Homilies on the Gospel of John · 2 passages
1. They who for the sake of the truth and the confession of Christ suffer anything terrible and are insulted, these are especially honored. For as he who loses his possessions for His sake, the same it is who most finds them; as he who hates his own life, the same it is who most loves it; so too he who is insulted, is the same who is most honored. As fell out in the case of the…
1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…
He describes the twenty-ninth year of his age, in which, having discovered the fallacies of the Manichæans, he professed rhetoric at Rome and Milan. Having heard Ambrose, he begins to come to himself. Chapter 1. That It Becomes the Soul to Praise God, and to Confess Unto Him. 1. Accept the sacrifice of my confessions by the agency of my tongue, which You have formed and quicken…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 8:9 — But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
- 1Cor 8:13 — Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
- 1Cor 9:19 — For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
- 1Cor 10:32 — Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
- 1Kgs 17:4 — And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
- 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
- 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
- 2Cor 8:9 — For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
- Gen 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ever
- Heb 2:7 — Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
- Jas 2:5 — Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
- Jonah 1:17 — Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- Luke 5:4 — Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
- Luke 23:2 — And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
- Matt 15:12 — Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
- Ps 8:8 — The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
- Rom 14:21 — It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
- Rom 15:1 — We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.