en_tn_condensed/mat/17/24.md

Connecting Statement:

Here the scene shifts again to a later time when Jesus teaches Peter about paying the temple tax.

When they

"When Jesus and his disciples"

the half-shekel tax

This was a tax that Jewish men paid to support the temple in Jerusalem. Alternate translation: "the temple tax" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-fraction and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bmoney and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)