Matthew 12:2
Look <2400> [Behold.]
Matthew 17:24
they <846> [when.]
temple tax ........... double drachma tax <1323> [tribute.]
"Gr. didrachma, in value fifteen pence."
This tribute seems to have been the half shekel which every male among the Jews paid yearly for the support of the temple, and which was continued by them, wherever dispersed, till after the time of Vespasian.
Matthew 21:27
We don't know ........ will ... tell <3756 1492 3004> [We cannot tell.]
Matthew 25:8
Give <1325> [Give.]
because <3754> [for.]
are going out <4570> [gone out. or, going out.]
Matthew 26:35
Even <2579> [Though.]
same thing <3668> [Likewise.]
Matthew 26:61
This man <3778> [This.]
I am able <1410> [I am.]
The words of our Lord were widely different from this statement of them; so that the testimony of these witnesses was false, though it had the semblance of truth.
Matthew 27:6
It is not lawful <1832 3756 2076> [It is not.]
to put <906> [to put.]
since <1893> [because.]
The Jews considered it was strictly forbidden by the Divine law to bring any filthy or iniquitous gain into the temple. For this reason they now refused to allow this money to be placed in the chest in the temple, amongst the former contributions for its repairs. In this, they were right enough, but by the very act of refusing this money, they proved themselves to be gross perverters of the spirit of God's requirements: they saw not that it was much less lawful for them, who had hired Judas to this sordid action, to be employed in the service of the temple. Those that "bear the vessels of the Lord," ought to be holy. Thus our Lord's words, "Ye blind guides! ye strain at a gnat and swallow a camel."
