Here's The Kicker

• Matthew 17:24 (ASV)
• Luke 22:29 (ASV)

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notice. only four drachma were paid.

under mosaic law, every male over twenty years of age was required to give unto the LORD by way of the temple his due share.

again. only four drachma were paid.

yeshua and peter were over twenty. and apparently, that's it.

yes. yeshua conferred this kingdom on an ecclectic, risk-taking group of teenagers. (though, to be fair, one became a religious adult at thirteen. but you get the point.)

these were the original heroes of the early local churches. these were the ones who brought rescue.

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