14. When they came to the crowd, a man met Jesus. He knelt before him,
15. saying, "Lord, show mercy to my son. He is epileptic and suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire or the water.
16. I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him."
17. Jesus answered, "You faithless and crooked generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me."
18. Then Jesus spoke harshly to the demon. And it came out of the child, who was healed from that time on.
19. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why couldn’t we throw the demon out?"
20. "Because you have little faith," he said. "I assure you that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Go from here to there,’ and it will go. There will be nothing that you can’t do."
22. When the disciples came together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Human One is about to be delivered over into human hands.
23. They will kill him. But he will be raised on the third day." And they were heartbroken.
24. When they came to Capernaum, the people who collected the half-shekel temple tax came to Peter and said, "Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?"
25. "Yes," he said. But when they came into the house, Jesus spoke to Peter first."What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect taxes, from their children or from strangers?"
26. "From strangers," he said. Jesus said to him, "Then the children don’t have to pay.
27. But just so we don’t offend them, go to the lake, throw out a fishing line and hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a shekel coin. Take it and pay the tax for both of us."