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In this parable, a woman sweeps her dark house looking for a lost coin (engraving by John Everett Millais). The Parable of the Lost Coin is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in Luke 15:8–10. In it, a woman searches for a lost coin, finds it, and rejoices.
The coin in the fish's mouth is one of the miracles of Jesus, told in verses 24–27. [16] [17] [18] The four-drachma (or shekel) coin would be exactly enough to pay the temple tax (a two-drachma coin) for two people. [19] It is usually thought to be a Tyrian shekel. [20] [21]
The Antiochan Stater is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. A Tyrian shekel, another possibility for the type of coin involved. The word used in Matthew 26:15 (ἀργύρια, argyria) simply means "silver coins", [10] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used.
Heinrich Meyer suggests that Peter's assertion "Yes" makes it "clear that Jesus had hitherto been in the habit of paying the tax". [6]The story ends without stating that Peter caught the fish as Jesus predicted, [7] nor does the text specify the species of the fish involved, but three West Asian varieties of tilapia are referred to as "St. Peter's fish", in particular the redbelly tilapia.
A number of coins are mentioned in the Bible, and they have proved very popular among coin collectors. [1] Specific coins mentioned in the Bible include the widow's mite, the tribute penny and the thirty pieces of silver, though it is not always possible to identify the exact coin that was used.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence", [16] and Johann Bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers. [17]
There have been 46 presidents in U.S. history, but only a few appear on coins and bills that most people actually see. That’s not going to change anytime soon either, because you can only have ...
The unfinished chapels of Batalha Monastery; construction was abandoned in 1533 and the vaulted ceiling was never concluded.. Counting the Cost [a] is a passage in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 14:25–33) [1] which includes a pair of parables told by Jesus.