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Matthew 17: Down from the mountain, through Galilee to Capernaum

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Matthew 16:21ESV

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

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As they were gathering in , Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,

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When they came to , the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”

Matthew 19:1ESV

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from and entered the region of beyond the .

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Matthew 19

Jesus takes Peter, James and John up a high mountain, which Matthew does not name, and is transfigured before them with Moses and Elijah. Coming down, he heals a boy his disciples could not heal. As they gather in Galilee he tells them again that the Son of Man will be killed and raised on the third day, and when they come to Capernaum he sends Peter to the sea to find the two-drachma tax in a fish's mouth.

Map of Matthew 17: Down from the mountain, through Galilee to Capernaum — 2 sites plotted

Regions on this map

Verse 22: Galilee, where Jesus speaks again of his death; verses 24 and 25: Capernaum and the house there; verse 27: the sea where Peter is sent to fish.

  • Where Jesus and the disciples are gathering when he tells them a second time that he will be killed and raised (17:22). Matthew names the region, not a town in it.

    the region as a whole; the gazetteer's representative point falls on the lake's west shore

  • Where the collectors of the two-drachma tax come to Peter, and where Jesus speaks to him in the house (17:24-25). The gazetteer puts it at Tell Hum (860 votes) on the north shore of the lake; Khirbet Minyeh is listed with none.

    Today: Tell Hum, on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee

  • Jesus tells Peter to go to "the sea" and cast a hook for the fish with a shekel in its mouth (17:27); from Capernaum that is the Sea of Galilee. All 500 gazetteer votes go to the lake.

    Today: Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), northern Israel (representative point)

Matthew 17, verse by verse

  1. Matthew 17:22As they were gathering in , Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,
  2. Matthew 17:24When they came to , the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”