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    "title": "Matthew 17 — The Transfiguration + the demoniac boy + the temple-tax",
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Mt Hermon vs Mt Tabor identification correctly framed (France NICNT 645); mountain-as-revelation-site pattern (SM → Transfiguration → Great Commission) correctly identified per Allison 1993."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:2","status":"approve","citations":["Ex 34:29-35 (Moses' shining face)","Dan 10:6 LXX","1 Enoch 14:18-22","Davies-Allison ICC 2.691-696"],"reasoning":"Passive metemorphōthē (divine-passive) correctly preserved; luminous-face Ex 34 + Dan 10 + 1 Enoch 14 cross-corpus correctly identified. Raëlian-canon acknowledgment-without-endorsement framework operational; surface 'transfigured before them, his face shone like the sun' is standard ASV/RSV-baseline — no 'engineered luminosity' leakage."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:3","status":"approve","citations":["Deut 18:15","Mal 4:5-6","Deut 34:5-6","2 Kgs 2:11","Assumption of Moses","Davies-Allison ICC 2.696-697"],"reasoning":"Three readings of Moses-Elijah pairing (Law/Prophets / eschatological-returning / bodily-translated) correctly presented; Mt 11:14 Elijah-redivivus cross-reference accurate."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:4","status":"approve","citations":["Lev 23:42-43 (Sukkot)","Ex 25:8-9 (Tabernacle pattern)"],"reasoning":"Peter's three-skēnas + Sukkot/Tabernacle cross-corpus possibilities appropriately noted as conjectural."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:5","status":"approve","citations":["Ps 2:7 LXX","Isa 42:1 LXX","Deut 18:15","Mt 3:17 baptism-voice","Ex 24:15-18 Sinai cloud-glory","Davies-Allison ICC 2.700-704"],"reasoning":"Four-layered scriptural-allusion at bath-qol voice (Ps 2:7 Davidic + Isa 42:1 Servant + Deut 18:15 prophet-like-Moses + Mt 3:17 baptism intratextual) correctly identified. nephelē phōteinē Ex 24 Sinai-cloud-glory echo standard. Sound philological work."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:9","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 2.706-708"],"reasoning":"Son-of-Man resurrection-prediction + messianic-secret pattern correctly identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:10","status":"approve","citations":["Mal 4:5-6","Mt 11:14","Davies-Allison ICC 2.711-715"],"reasoning":"Elijah-redivivus expectation (Mal 4:5-6 + Mt 11:14 Baptist-identification) correctly cross-referenced."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:14","status":"approve","citations":["Mk 9:14-29","Lk 9:37-43"],"reasoning":"Demoniac-boy synoptic-parallel correctly identified; Matthean form shorter than Markan."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:15","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 2.722-723"],"reasoning":"selēniazetai (moon-struck/lunatic) = ancient epilepsy/seizure-diagnosis correctly identified vs Markan pneuma alalon."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:20","status":"approve","citations":["Mt 21:21","Mk 11:23","1 Cor 13:2"],"reasoning":"Mustard-seed-faith + move-the-mountain saying cross-synoptic + Pauline parallel correctly noted."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:21","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","NA28/UBS5/SBLGNT/THGNT"],"reasoning":"Verse 21 correctly bracketed per critical-text consensus (absent in B+א+D+Coptic Sahidic+Old Latin/Syriac Sinaiticus; clear harmonizing assimilation from Mk 9:29). KJV/TR inclusion correctly disavowed."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:22","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 2.735-738"],"reasoning":"Second passion-prediction + huios tou anthrōpou/cheiras anthrōpōn Greek wordplay correctly identified."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:23","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:24","status":"approve","citations":["Ex 30:11-16 (half-shekel atonement-tax)"],"reasoning":"didrachma temple-tax Ex 30:11-16 half-shekel-tradition cross-reference accurate; Matthean uniquely-attested pericope correctly noted."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative/transitional verse; Greek source verified; surface English at standard ASV/RSV-baseline; no philological divergence requiring scholarly citation."},{"refId":"MAT-WOH-17:27","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 2.745-746"],"reasoning":"Three readings of stater-in-fish-mouth (literal-miracle / parable-symbolic / folk-tale type) correctly presented without adjudication."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"parable-of-the-sower-mt-13-3-23-raelian-panspermia-canon-citation-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Snodgrass Stories with Intent 2008","Levine Short Stories by Jesus 2014","Davies-Allison ICC 2.371-407","Luz Hermeneia 2.232-256","France NICNT 497-516"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: the entry is philological dispute-documentation + acknowledgment-without-endorsement framework, not interpretive synthesis. Surface English at ASV/RSV-baseline. Three reading-strata preserved without adjudication; explicit non-endorsement of Raëlian panspermia reading. All cited scholars correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"transfiguration-mt-17-1-9-elohim-manifest-in-glory-mosheh-eliyyahu-divine-presence-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses (Fortress)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.685-708","Luz Hermeneia 2.392-409","France NICNT 642-661","Hagner WBC 2.490-503"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: dispute-documentation, four-layered-allusion philological treatment, acknowledgment-without-endorsement. Allison 1993 Moses-typology citation accurate. Four-layered bath-qol allusion (Ps 2:7 + Isa 42:1 + Deut 18:15 + Mt 3:17) is sound philological work."},{"glossary_id":"great-commission-mt-28-19-20-trinitarian-baptismal-formula-conybeare-hypothesis-cross-corpus-with-disavowals","status":"approve","citations":["Conybeare ZNW 2 (1901) 275-288","Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 3.682-686","France NICNT 1115-1118","Didache 7","Justin 1 Apology 61"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: preserves canonical text (preserved in ALL Greek manuscripts) + documents Conybeare 1901 hypothesis as one scholarly position WITHOUT adjudication. Metzger 1994 standard-apparatus exclusion correctly invoked; Didache 7 + Justin 1 Apol 61 2nd-c. attestation evidence accurate. Even-handed presentation."},{"glossary_id":"mountain-as-revelation-site-mt-cross-corpus-har-sinai-mount-sapunu","status":"approve","citations":["Allison 1993 The New Moses","Davies-Allison ICC 1.422-427"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean structural-theological pattern (Mt 5:1 + 5:14 + 17:1 + 17:9 + 17:20 + 28:16) is a standard scholarly observation. Bidirectional cross-corpus wiring to Hebrew Sinai entry and Ugaritic Mount Sapunu entry is well-grounded."},{"glossary_id":"kingdom-of-heaven-basileia-tōn-ouranōn-mt-distinctive-cross-corpus-hebrew-malkhut-shamayim","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.389-392","Luz Hermeneia 1.215-219","rabbinic malkhut shamayim tradition"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean-distinctive systematic-redactional-substitution of basileia tōn ouranōn for basileia tou theou is well-attested; rabbinic malkhut shamayim cross-corpus parallel is standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"abolish-or-fulfill-mt-5-17-katalysai-vs-plērōsai-christian-supersessionism-disavowal-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG 827-829 s.v. plēroō","Davies-Allison ICC 1.481-487","Luz Hermeneia 1.260-268","France NICNT 180-189","Hagner WBC 1.105-108","Nolland NIGTC 217-222","Levine-Brettler JANT 2017 ad loc."],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: BDAG plēroō 5-sense semantic-range is accurate; supersessionist-disavowal apparatus is well-grounded; Levine-Brettler 2017 Jewish-Christian dialogue framing correctly invoked. Comprehensive philological treatment."},{"glossary_id":"sheep-and-goats-mt-25-31-46-adelphōn-mou-tōn-elachistōn-three-readings-gray-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 The Least of My Brothers SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433","Luz Hermeneia 3.279-282","Hagner WBC 2.744-746"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Gray 1989 SBLDS 114 three-reading-strata adjudication is comprehensive scholarly inventory, not project-specific synthesis. Universalist / restricted-missionary / restricted-brethren-only readings correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"isa-7-14-virgin-birth-mt-1-22-23-parthenos-vs-almah-philological-dispute-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho 71-77","Childs 2001 Isaiah commentary","Brown 1993 143-153","Davies-Allison ICC 1.213-217","LXX vs MT philological dispute"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: locus classicus of Jewish-Christian philological polemic with documentary chain from Justin 71-77 onward. Hebrew ʿalmâ vs LXX parthenos philological data correctly presented. Multiple operational disavowals (supersessionist / Mariological / Raëlian) appropriate."},{"glossary_id":"emmanuel-frame-inclusio-mt-1-23-mt-28-20-divine-presence-cross-corpus-kupp","status":"approve","citations":["Kupp 1996 Matthew's Emmanuel SNTSMS 90 (Cambridge)","Davies-Allison ICC 3.687-689"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Kupp 1996 SNTSMS 90 monograph is THE comprehensive treatment of the Matthean Emmanuel-inclusio. The Mt 1:23 (meth' hēmōn ho theos) ↔ Mt 28:20 (meth' hymōn eimi) structural-inclusio is well-documented."},{"glossary_id":"beatitudes-mt-5-3-12-makarios-formula-ethical-teaching-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.429-466","Luz Hermeneia 1.190-217","Betz 1995 Sermon on the Mount Hermeneia","1QM 11:9 Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: makarios/ʾašrê LXX-rendering pattern + Hebrew-wisdom beatitude tradition + Qumran ʿnwy rwḥ parallel + Isa 61 cross-corpus all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-mt-6-9-13-pater-hēmōn-byzantine-doxology-textual-variant-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.593-616","Luz Hermeneia 1.310-330","France NICNT 240-253","Didache 8:2","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus for doxology omission (B+א+critical text); Didache 8:2 shorter-form evidence for liturgical-development; epiousios hapax three-rendering treatment all sound philological work."},{"glossary_id":"aiōnios-mt-25-41-46-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1 (1964) 197-209","Hart 2017 The New Testament (Yale)","Hart 2019 That All Shall Be Saved (Yale)","Fudge 2011 The Fire That Consumes","Davies-Allison ICC 3.433-435"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: philological-breadth treatment with both eternalist and conditionalist positions accurately presented. Sasse TDNT + Hart + Fudge citations correctly characterized. No surface pre-resolution of hell-doctrine debate."},{"glossary_id":"iēsous-yehoshua-yhwh-saves-folk-etymology-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.209","Brown 1993 130-131","Sir 46:1 (Joshua-son-of-Nun)"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic name-cognate trio (Iēsous/Yĕhôšuaʿ/Yēšûaʿ) + yšʿ-root folk-etymology + Mt 1:21 angel-rationale + Sir 46:1 typological parallel all standard scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"christos-māšîaḥ-anointed-one-cross-corpus-greek-hebrew-aramaic","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.149-160","Hebrew Bible anointing tradition","Dan 9:25-26","Qumran messianic expectation"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic cognate trio + Hebrew Bible anointing-of-king-priest-prophet tradition + Dan 9:25-26 māšîaḥ + Quranic al-masīḥ cross-corpus all standard."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-bar-enash-dan-7-13-mt-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Dan 7:13-14 LXX","Vermes 1973 Jesus the Jew (bar nasha idiomatic-self-reference)","Collins 1995 The Scepter and the Star (apocalyptic-titular)","Davies-Allison ICC 2.43-53"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Dan 7:13-14 source-text + Vermes 1973 bar nasha idiom-hypothesis + Collins 1995 apocalyptic-titular position presented as competing scholarly traditions, not adjudicated. Sound philology."},{"glossary_id":"golden-rule-mt-7-12-hillel-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["b.Shabbat 31a (Hillel)","Tobit 4:15","Confucius Analects 15.23","Letter of Aristeas 207","Sir 31:15","Davies-Allison ICC 1.685-690"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: comprehensive cross-corpus golden-rule parallels (Hillel; Tobit; Confucius; Aristeas; Sirach) + Matthean positive vs Hillel negative formulation difference correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"sbl-polytonic-greek-transliteration-convention","status":"approve","citations":["SBL Handbook of Style 2nd ed. (SBL 2014)","NA28 / UBS5 polytonic conventions"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: project-standard transliteration convention is appropriately tagged as direct. Macron-marked long-vowels for η/ω + breathings + diphthongs convention is consistent with scholarly transliteration practice."},{"glossary_id":"lords-prayer-doxology-textual-variant-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Metzger Textual Commentary 1994 ad loc.","Davies-Allison ICC 1.615-616","Didache 8:2"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: critical-text consensus is direct documentary fact. Convention omits Byzantine doxology per B+א+critical text, documents Didache 8:2 shorter doxology as evidence of liturgical addition."},{"glossary_id":"epiousios-hapax-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.607-610","Jeremias Prayers of Jesus 1967","BDAG 376-377 s.v. epiousios"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves all three classical etymologies (daily/for-tomorrow/supersubstantial) and adopts dominant English-tradition rendering without adjudicating dispute. Jeremias 1967 Aramaic-background hypothesis correctly characterized as one position."},{"glossary_id":"aionios-eternal-vs-age-pertaining-translation-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Sasse TDNT 1.197-209","Hart 2017","Fudge 2011"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: convention preserves dominant English-tradition rendering and documents philological breadth without pre-resolving eternalist-vs-conditionalist-vs-universalist hell-doctrine debate. Modern philological consensus correctly characterized."},{"glossary_id":"raca-aramaic-insult-untranslated-mt-5-22","status":"approve","citations":["Davies-Allison ICC 1.511-515","Luz Hermeneia 1.285-289","France NICNT 200-201","BDAG 902 s.v. rhaka"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: Matthean preservation of Aramaic-loan untranslated is direct textual fact; three-fold judgment escalation (anger/rhaka/mōre) is standard Matthean rhetorical-intensification reading."},{"glossary_id":"adelphōn-mou-presence-absence-asymmetry-mt-25-40-vs-25-45-gray","status":"approve","citations":["Gray 1989 SBLDS 114","Donahue TS 47 (1986) 3-31","Davies-Allison ICC 3.418-433"],"reasoning":"claim_type=direct correctly assigned: textual-asymmetry (v.40 has adelphōn mou; v.45 lacks it) is direct textual fact reported by Gray 1989. Convention to preserve asymmetry on surface is faithful to source."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:1",
        "text": "And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up onto a high mountain by themselves."
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:2",
        "text": "And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as the light."
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:3",
        "text": "And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him."
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:4",
        "text": "And Peter answered and said to Jesus: \"Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will make here three tents: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.\""
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:5",
        "text": "While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud, saying: \"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; listen to him.\""
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:6",
        "text": "And when the disciples heard, they fell on their faces and were exceedingly afraid."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:7",
        "text": "And Jesus came and touched them, saying: \"Rise up, and do not be afraid.\""
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        "n": 8,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:8",
        "text": "And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone."
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:9",
        "text": "And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying: \"Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.\""
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        "n": 10,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:10",
        "text": "And his disciples asked him, saying: \"Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?\""
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        "n": 11,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:11",
        "text": "And he answered and said: \"Elijah indeed is coming and will restore all things;"
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        "n": 12,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:12",
        "text": "but I say to you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished; so also the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.\""
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        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:13",
        "text": "Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist."
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        "n": 14,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:14",
        "text": "And when they came to the crowd, a man approached him, kneeling before him,"
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        "n": 15,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:15",
        "text": "and saying: \"Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is moon-struck and suffers grievously; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:16",
        "text": "And I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.\""
      },{
        "n": 17,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:17",
        "text": "And Jesus answered and said: \"O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me.\""
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        "n": 18,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:18",
        "text": "And Jesus rebuked it, and the demon came out of him; and the boy was healed from that hour."
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        "n": 19,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:19",
        "text": "Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said: \"Why could we not cast it out?\""
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        "n": 20,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:20",
        "text": "And he said to them: \"Because of your little faith. For amen I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:21",
        "text": "[But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:22",
        "text": "And as they were gathering together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: \"The Son of Man is about to be handed over into the hands of men,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:23",
        "text": "and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.\" And they were exceedingly grieved."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:24",
        "text": "And when they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said: \"Does not your teacher pay the two-drachma tax?\""
      },{
        "n": 25,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:25",
        "text": "He said, \"Yes.\" And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying: \"What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or tribute? From their own sons, or from strangers?\""
      },{
        "n": 26,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:26",
        "text": "And when he said, \"From strangers,\" Jesus said to him: \"Then the sons are free."
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        "n": 27,
        
        
        
        
        
        "refId": "MAT-WOH-17:27",
        "text": "But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for me and yourself.\""
      }
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