3. Peter and Fish

Question 1

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

“Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes–from their own sons or from others?”

“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus said to him.

“But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

Answer 1

Matthew - 17:24-27

Question 2

Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.

Answer 2

Isaiah - 34 : 16

Question 3

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

Answer 3

Matthew - 4:19

Question 4

Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.

Answer 4

Matthew - 13:34

Question 5

“Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.

When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.

This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Answer 5

Matthew - 13:47-50

Question 6

A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.

Answer 6

Matthew - 16:4

Question 7

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Answer 7

Hebrews - 4:12

Question 8

I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old–

Answer 8

Psalms - 78:2

Question 9

for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Answer 9

Proverbs - 1:6

Question 10

“Son of man, set forth an allegory and tell the house of Israel a parable.

Answer 10

Ezekiel - 17:2

Question 11

“Say to this rebellious house, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Say to them: ‘The king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and carried off her king and her nobles, bringing them back with him to Babylon.

Answer 11

Ezekiel - 17:12

Question 12

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

Answer 12

Matthew - 13:14

Question 13

He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.

Answer 13

Mark - 4:34

Question 14

After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”

His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.”

Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

Answer 14

John - 11:11-14

Question 15

For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Answer 15

John - 5:18

Question 16

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

Answer 16

Matthew - 12:1-2

Question 17

Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?

Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius,

and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

Answer 17

Matthew - 22:17-21

Question 18

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.

Answer 18

John - 8:7

Question 19

One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God,

he saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets.

He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”

Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.

Answer 19

Luke - 5:1-6

Question 20

So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”

For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,

and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will catch men.”

So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.

Answer 20

Luke - 5:7-11

Question 21

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Answer 21

Matthew - 16:19