When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said: does your teacher not pay the tax? The temple tax episode: the collectors of the two-drachma tax (the annual half-shekel temple tax required of every Jewish male, based on Exodus 30:13) ask Peter whether Jesus pays it. The question communicates ambiguity about Jesus' relationship to the temple tax: he is a teacher, but does he submit to the ordinary obligations of the covenant community?

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