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Matthew

Chapter 17

Summary

Six days after Peter’s confession, Jesus leads Peter, James, and John up a high mountain where He is gloriously transfigured before them: His face shining like the sun and His clothing becoming radiant white. This event, accompanied by the appearance of Moses and Elijah, serves as a definitive confirmation of Jesus’s divine nature and His fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets: as the Father’s voice from heaven commands the disciples to "Hear Him!" Upon their descent, Jesus heals a demon-possessed boy whom His disciples were unable to help: emphasizing the necessity of faith as small as a "mustard seed." He provides a second prediction of His coming death and resurrection: while demonstrating His humble obedience to the Law by miraculously providing the Temple tax through a coin found in a fish’s mouth.

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Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves;

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and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.

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And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.

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Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here: if You will, let us make here three tabernacles; one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

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And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

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But Jesus came and touched them and said, "Arise, and do not be afraid."

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And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

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Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead."

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And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

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Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.

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But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands."

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Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

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And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,

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"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water."

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And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.

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Then Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me."

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And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

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Then the disciples came to Jesus apart, and said, "Why could not we cast him out?"

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So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."

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Now while they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men,

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and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up." And they were exceedingly sorrowful.

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And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, "does not your master pay tribute?"

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He said, "Yes." And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?"

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Peter said to Him, "Of strangers." Jesus said to him, "Then are the children free."

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"Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you."