16. I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”
17. And answering, Yeshua said, “O faithless and twisted generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
18. Yeshua rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that very hour.
19. Then the disciples came to Yeshua in private and said, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
20. And He said to them, “Because you trust so little. Amen, I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
21. [footnote: Most manuscripts omit verse 21: But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]
22. Now while they were gathering in the Galilee, Yeshua said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men;
23. and they will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised.” And the disciples became greatly distressed.
24. When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the Temple tax, doesn’t He?”
25. “Yes,” Peter said. Now when Peter came into the house, Yeshua spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they collect tolls or tax? From their sons or from strangers?”
26. After Peter said, “From strangers,” Yeshua said to him, “Then the sons are free.
27. But so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw out a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And when you open its mouth, you’ll find a coin. Take that, and give it to them, for Me and you.”