And when they came to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Does not your teacher pay tribute?
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
The Lord is asked to pay a halfshekel. For this was the amount that the law had established for those serving in the temple for the redemption of soul and body. But the law, as we know, is the foreshadowing of the future (for it was not the value of the coin that God desired so that with such a small expense redemption of soul and body might be granted for sins). Therefore the offering of this halfshekel was established so that we might offer ourselves certified and professed and enrolled in the name of Christ, in Christ who is the true temple of God, and it was established as testimony of the Son of God.
