Matthew 17 is the seventeenth chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible. Jesus continues his final journey to Jerusalem ministering through Galilee. William Robertson Nicoll identifies "three impressive tableaux" in this chapter: the transfiguration, the epileptic boy and the temple tribute.
The Apostle Peter paying the temple tax with a coin from a fish's mouth by Augustin Tünger, 1486
Peter Finds the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish by Jacob Jordaens
An Athenian tetradrachm from after 499 BCE
Tilapia zilli ("St. Peter's fish") - served in a Tiberias restaurant
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it.
The Transfiguration by Raphael, c. 1520
Georgian manuscript of Transfiguration in the Gospel of Mark, 1300
Mosaic of the Transfiguration, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
12th-century icon of the Transfiguration