Open English Translation MAT Chapter 17

17 After six days, Yeshua took Peter, and Yacob and his brother Yohan, and they went up a high hill by themselves, 2 and Yeshua was changed in front of them so that his face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. 3 Then look, Moses and Eliyah appeared and they could see them talking with Yeshua. 4 Then Peter spoke up and said to Yeshua, “Master, it’s good that we’re here. If you want, I could make three shelters here: one for you and one for Moses and one for Eliyah.”

5 [ref]While he was still speaking, a bright cloud came over the top of them and wow, a voice came out of the cloud saying, “This is my dear son that I get great pleasure from. Just listen to him.”

6 When the three apprentices heard the voice, they lay face down and were extremely scared. 7 But Yeshua went across to them, and touching them he said, “Get up now and don’t be afraid,” 8 and when they looked around, they didn’t see anyone other than Yeshua himself.

9 As they started heading down the hill, Yeshua instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you saw until after humanity’s child comes back to life.”

10 [ref]So his apprentices asked him, “Why do the religious teachers say that Eliyah has to come before the messiah?”

11 “In a way, Eliyah is coming” he said, “and he will restore everything. 12 [ref]But I’m also telling you that in another way, Eliyah already came and they didn’t recognise him, but they mistreated him just however they wanted, and humanity’s child will suffer from their actions like that too.”

13 Then the apprentices realised that he was talking to them about Yohan-the-Immerser.

14 When they got back to the crowd, a man approached Yeshua and knelt down before him 15 saying, “Master, show mercy to my son, because he has seizures and isn’t well, often falling into the fire or the water. 16 I brought him to your apprentices, but they weren’t able to heal him.”

17 “Oh you unbelieving and depraved generation,” Yeshua answered, “how much longer will I have to be with you all? How much longer can I tolerate you all? Bring your son here to me.” 18 Then Yeshua rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.

19 Later the apprentices went by themselves to Yeshua and asked him how come they hadn’t been able to drive away the demon.

20 [ref]“It’s because your faith is so small,” he told them, “because I can assure you that if your faith was a big as a mustard seed, you’d be able to command a mountain to move and it would move, and then there’d be nothing that you all couldn’t do.”

21 ◘ 22 Another time when they were all together in Galilee, Yeshua told them, “Humanity’s child is going to be handed over to the people, 23 and they’re going to kill him and then he’ll come back to life on the third day.” Those listening were very upset.

24 [ref]Then when they got to Capernaum, the tax-collectors collecting the poll tax approached Peter and asked him, “Isn’t your teacher going to pay the tax?”

25 “Yes, he will.” replied Peter.

Then when he went inside the house, before he could say anything Yeshua asked him, “What do you think, Simon? Do earthly kings extract taxes from their own children, or from strangers?”

26 “From strangers,” answered Peter.

“So surely the children are exempt?”, Yeshua responded, 27 “but so that we don’t offend them, go down to the lake and throw in a line. Pull out the first fish that you hook, and when you open its mouth, you’ll find a coin that’ll be enough to pay the tax for both of us.”