# Connecting Statement:

Here the scene shifts again to a later time when Jesus teaches Peter about paying the temple tax.

# When they

"When Jesus and his disciples"

# the half-shekel tax

This was a tax that Jewish men paid to support the temple in Jerusalem. AT: "the temple tax" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-fraction]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bmoney]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])