Matthew 17

1After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.Cross-references: Matt 26:37 · Mark 5:37 · Mark 9:2 · Luke 8:51 · Luke 9:28 · 2Cor 13:1 · +1 more

2He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.Cross-references: Ex 34:29 · Ps 104:2 · Matt 28:3 · Mark 9:3 · Luke 9:29 · John 1:14 · +8 more

3Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.Cross-references: Deut 18:18 · Deut 34:5 · Deut 34:10 · 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:36 · 2Ki 2:11 · +14 more

4Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”Cross-references: Ex 33:18 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 63:1 · Isa 33:17 · Zech 9:17 · +8 more

5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”Cross-references: Ex 19:19 · Ex 40:34 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 5:22 · Deut 18:15 · Deut 18:19 · +30 more

6When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.Cross-references: Lev 9:24 · Judg 13:20 · Judg 13:22 · 1Chr 21:16 · Ezek 3:23 · Ezek 43:3 · +6 more

7Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”Cross-references: Dan 8:18 · Dan 9:21 · Dan 10:10 · Dan 10:18 · Matt 14:27 · Luke 24:5 · +2 more

8Lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.Cross-references: Mark 9:8 · Luke 9:36 · Acts 12:10

9As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw, until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 8:20 · Matt 16:20 · Matt 17:12 · Matt 17:23 · Mark 8:30 · +5 more

10His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”Cross-references: Mal 4:5 · Matt 11:14 · Matt 17:3 · Matt 27:47 · Mark 9:11 · John 1:21 · +1 more

11Jesus answered them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and will restore all things;Cross-references: Mal 4:6 · Luke 1:16 · Luke 3:3 · Acts 3:21

12but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”Cross-references: Isa 53:3 · Matt 11:2 · Matt 11:9 · Matt 14:3 · Matt 16:21 · Matt 21:23 · +14 more

13Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.Cross-references: Matt 11:14

14When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying,Cross-references: Mark 1:40 · Mark 9:14 · Mark 10:17 · Luke 9:37 · Acts 10:25

15“Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.Cross-references: Job 1:10 · Job 2:7 · Matt 4:24 · Matt 8:31 · Matt 15:22 · Mark 5:4 · +5 more

16So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:29 · Matt 17:19 · Luke 9:40 · Acts 3:16 · Acts 19:15

17Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Ex 16:28 · Num 14:11 · Num 14:27 · Ps 95:10 · Prov 1:22 · +13 more

18Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.Cross-references: Matt 9:22 · Matt 12:22 · Matt 15:28 · Mark 1:34 · Mark 5:8 · Mark 9:25 · +7 more

19Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”Cross-references: Mark 4:10 · Mark 9:28

20He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.Cross-references: Matt 13:31 · Matt 14:30 · Matt 17:9 · Matt 17:17 · Matt 21:21 · Mark 4:31 · +9 more

21But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

22While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,Cross-references: Matt 16:21 · Matt 16:28 · Matt 17:23 · Matt 20:17 · Matt 24:10 · Matt 26:16 · +12 more

23and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.Cross-references: Ps 16:10 · Ps 22:15 · Ps 22:22 · Isa 53:7 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:26 · +8 more

24When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?”Cross-references: Ex 30:13 · Ex 38:26 · Mark 9:33

25He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”Cross-references: 1Sam 17:25 · Matt 3:15 · Matt 22:17 · Matt 22:19 · Matt 22:21 · Rom 13:6

26Peter said to him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Therefore the children are exempt.

27But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · 1Ki 17:4 · Ps 8:8 · Jonah 1:17 · Jonah 2:10 · Matt 15:12 · +13 more