Matthew 17

¹Six days later, Jesus takes Peter and James and his brother John and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves. ²And he was transformed in front of them; his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. ³And look! Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him.

⁴Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will make three shelters here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

⁵While he was still speaking, look! A bright cloud overshadowed them, and look! A voice came out of the cloud, saying: "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!"

⁶When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. ⁷But Jesus approached and, touching them, said, "Rise up and do not be afraid." ⁸And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus alone.

⁹As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, "Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."

¹⁰And the disciples questioned him, saying, "Then why do the scholars of the Law say that Elijah must come first?"

¹¹He answered and said, "Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things. ¹²But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him but did to him whatever they pleased. In the same way, the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands." ¹³Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

¹⁴When they came to the crowd, a man approached him, kneeling before him ¹⁵and saying, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is moon-afflicted and suffers terribly; he often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to heal him."

¹⁷Jesus answered and said, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me." ¹⁸And Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him; the boy was healed from 그 hour.

¹⁹Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why were we not able to cast it out?"

²⁰He says to them, "Because of your meager trust. For truly I tell you, if you have trust the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."

²²While they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be handed over into the hands of men, ²³and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised." And they were deeply grieved.

²⁴When they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma Temple tax approached Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the Temple tax?"

²⁵He says, "Yes." And when he entered the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes? From their own sons or from foreigners?"

²⁶When he said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are exempt. ²⁷But so that we do not cause them to stumble, go to the sea, throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."