[71] [back to 14:36] or, tassel
[72] [back to 15:4] Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
[73] [back to 15:4] Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
[74] [back to 15:9] Isaiah 29:13
[75] [back to 16:18] Peter's name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.
[76] [back to 16:18] Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.
[77] [back to 16:18] or, Hell
[78] [back to 17:24] A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days' wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver.
[79] [back to 17:27] A stater is a silver coin equivalent to four Attic or two Alexandrian drachmas, or a Jewish shekel: just exactly enough to cover the half-shekel temple tax for two people.
[80] [back to 18:9] or, Hell