Matthew 17:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

Matthew 17:26 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-27)

We have here an account of Christ’s paying tribute. I. Observe how it was demanded, Matt. 17:24. Christ was now at Capernaum, his headquarters, where he mostly resided; he did not keep from thence, to decline being called upon for his dues, but rather came thither, to be ready to pay them. 1. The tribute demanded was not any civil payment to the Roman powers, that was strictly exacted by the publi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. Peter saith unto him, Of strangers--“of those not their children.” Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free--By “the children” our Lord cannot here mean Himself and the Twelve together, in some loose sense of their near relationship to God as their common Father. For besides that our Lord never once mixes Himself up with His disciples in speaking of their relation to God, but ever stud…