dwashbur
Feb 26, 2022, 10:36 AM
I love this story. The temple tax collectors come to Peter and say "Does your master intend to pay the tax, or not?"
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, yes? [Wander inside, ready to ask]
Jesus: Riddle me this, Simon. Do kings collect taxes from their own children or from other people?
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, other people?
Jesus: [flashing a little smile, enjoying his own little joke] The sons are exempt, then. Still, we don't want to cause a fuss, so go fishing.
Peter: Yeah, I'll catch a mess of fish and sell them for enough -
Jesus: Just one fish.
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, gimme that again?
Jesus: Just one fish. It'll be enough.
Peter: I hope it's a really big fish, because if that's all I have to sell -
Jesus: Don't sell it. Look in its mouth.
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh.....
Jesus: Don't worry. You'll find a stater coin that's enough to pay the tax for both of us.
Peter: Do I want to know how it got there?
Jesus: [Reflecting back to when he watched that coin fall out of the tax collector's purse into the water, where the fish tried to eat it] Probably not.
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, yes? [Wander inside, ready to ask]
Jesus: Riddle me this, Simon. Do kings collect taxes from their own children or from other people?
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, other people?
Jesus: [flashing a little smile, enjoying his own little joke] The sons are exempt, then. Still, we don't want to cause a fuss, so go fishing.
Peter: Yeah, I'll catch a mess of fish and sell them for enough -
Jesus: Just one fish.
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh, gimme that again?
Jesus: Just one fish. It'll be enough.
Peter: I hope it's a really big fish, because if that's all I have to sell -
Jesus: Don't sell it. Look in its mouth.
Peter: Uhhhhhhhh.....
Jesus: Don't worry. You'll find a stater coin that's enough to pay the tax for both of us.
Peter: Do I want to know how it got there?
Jesus: [Reflecting back to when he watched that coin fall out of the tax collector's purse into the water, where the fish tried to eat it] Probably not.