Matthew 17:27
Good News Translation
But we don't want to offend these people. So go to the lake and drop in a line. Pull up the first fish you hook, and in its mouth you will find a coin worth enough for my Temple tax and yours. Take it and pay them our taxes."

New Revised Standard Version
However, so that we do not give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook; take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a coin; take that and give it to them for you and me.”

Contemporary English Version
But we don't want to cause trouble. So go cast a line into the lake and pull out the first fish you hook. Open its mouth, and you will find a coin. Use it to pay your taxes and mine."

New American Bible
But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. Open its mouth and you will find a coin worth twice the temple tax. Give that to them for me and for you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible

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Matthew 15:12-14 Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized? . . .

Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

Romans 15:1-3 Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:9,13 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:19-22 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:32,33 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God: . . .

2 Corinthians 6:3 Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

Titus 2:7,8 In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity, . . .

and take.

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

1 Kings 17:4 And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Psalm 8:8 The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

Jonah 1:17 And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims to the Lord, and made vows.

Jonah 2:10 But I with the voice of praise will sacrifice to thee: I will pay whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation to the Lord.

Hebrews 2:7,8 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands. . . .

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that take.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Context
The Temple Tax
26But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened it's mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee. 27
Cross References
Matthew 5:29
And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.

Matthew 5:30
And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell.

Matthew 17:26
But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened it's mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.

Matthew 18:6
But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:8
And if thy hand, or thy foot, scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

Mark 9:42
And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.

Mark 9:43
And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire:

Luke 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.

John 6:61
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

Matthew 17:26
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