¹³ Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel,^[a] according to the sanctuary shekel,^(A) which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord.

²⁵ Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel,^(A) twenty gerahs^(B) to the shekel.

⁴⁷ collect five shekels^[a](A) for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel,^(B) which weighs twenty gerahs.^(C)

¹² The shekel^[a] is to consist of twenty gerahs.^(A) Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels equal one mina.^[b]

The Temple Tax

²⁴ After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax^(A) came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

²⁶ one beka per person,^(A) that is, half a shekel,^[a] according to the sanctuary shekel,^(B) from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more,^(C) a total of 603,550 men.^(D)

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar^(A) was starting, he took water and washed his hands^(B) in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,”^(C) he said. “It is your responsibility!”^(D)