Matthew 17:24-27 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your master pay tribute?… Christ here showed His Divine knowledge, and especially His power over the natural world. 1. Obedience to law is the true guarantee of individual safety, the preservation of justice and right, the peace of society. 2. Christ will use His mighty control of the material world to care for His followers as He did for Peter. 3. Let Christians remember, Christ has moved His treasury from the mouth of the fish to the loving hearts and purses of His people. 4. Now every Christian must cherish the idea, and act upon the recognized principle that God has right of property in all of ours as well as of ourselves, and that we are but agents to distribute, as God wills, what He has placed us in charge of as stewards. (W. H. Anderson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? |
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