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Matthew 17:20-26 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting."

21. And when they were conversing together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: "The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

22. And they will kill him, but he will rise again on the third day." And they were extremely saddened.

23. And when they had arrived at Capernaum, those who collected the half shekel approached Peter, and they said to him, "Doesn't your Teacher pay the half shekel?"

24. He said, "Yes." And when he had entered into the house, Jesus went before him, saying: "How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or the census tax: from their own sons or from foreigners?"

25. And he said, "From foreigners." Jesus said to him: "Then the sons are free.

26. But so that we may not become an obstacle to them: go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish that is brought up, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them, for me and for you."

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