And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again.
And they were exceedingly sorry.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
They that received the didrachmas, (ta didrachma) in value about fifteen-pence of our money. (Witham)
A tax, according to some, laid on every person who was twenty years of age, for the service of the temple. See Exodus xxx. St. Chrysostom thinks it was paid for the first-born only, whom the Lord would have redeemed for the first-born of the Egyptians, whom he slew. Others think it was a tribute paid to the Romans, as Christ, in ver. 24, seems to insinuate, by mentioning the kings of the earth; and the Jews were tributary to them at this time. In ver. 24, the evangelist uses the word Kensos, taken from the Latin census, or tax.
