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# Matthew 17

Matthew 17 is chapter 17 of 28 in the Gospel of Matthew. Here are all 26 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The Transfiguration of Christ: He cures the lunatic child: foretells his passion; and pays the didrachma.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Matthew 17 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And after six days, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and he led them onto a lofty mountain separately.
2. And he was transfigured before them. And his face shined brightly like the sun. And his garments were made white like snow.
3. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, speaking with him.
4. And Peter responded by saying to Jesus: “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you are willing, let us make three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
5. And while he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud overshadowed them. And behold, there was a voice from the cloud, saying: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
6. And the disciples, hearing this, fell prone on their face, and they were very afraid.
7. And Jesus drew near and touched them. And he said to them, “Rise up and do not be afraid.”
8. And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus alone.
9. And as they were descending from the mountain, Jesus instructed them, saying, “Tell no one about the vision, until the Son of man has risen from the dead.”
10. And his disciples questioned him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that it is necessary for Elijah to arrive first?”
11. But in response, he said to them: “Elijah, indeed, shall arrive and restore all things.
12. But I say to you, that Elijah has already arrived, and they did not recognize him, but they did whatever they wanted to him. So also shall the Son of man suffer from them.”
13. Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist.
14. And when he had arrived at the multitude, a man approached him, falling to his knees before him, saying: “Lord, take pity on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers harm. For he frequently falls into fire, and often also into water.
15. And I brought him to your disciples, but they were not able to cure him.”
16. Then Jesus responded by saying: “What an unbelieving and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me.”
17. And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
18. Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, “Why were we unable to cast him out?”
19. Jesus said to them: “Because of your unbelief. Amen I say to you, certainly, if you will have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And nothing will be impossible for you.
20. But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”
21. And when they were conversing together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: “The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
22. And they will kill him, but he will rise again on the third day.” And they were extremely saddened.
23. And when they had arrived at Capernaum, those who collected the half shekel approached Peter, and they said to him, “Doesn’t your Teacher pay the half shekel?”
24. He said, “Yes.” And when he had entered into the house, Jesus went before him, saying: “How does it seem to you, Simon? The kings of the earth, from whom do they receive tribute or the census tax: from their own sons or from foreigners?”
25. And he said, “From foreigners.” Jesus said to him: “Then the sons are free.
26. But so that we may not become an obstacle to them: go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish that is brought up, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take it and give it to them, for me and for you.”

## Matthew 17 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et post dies sex assumit Jesus Petrum, et Jacobum, et Joannem fratrem ejus, et ducit illos in montem excelsum seorsum:
2. et transfiguratus est ante eos. Et resplenduit facies ejus sicut sol: vestimenta autem ejus facta sunt alba sicut nix.
3. Et ecce apparuerunt illis Moyses et Elias cum eo loquentes.
4. Respondens autem Petrus, dixit ad Jesum: Domine, bonum est nos hic esse: si vis, faciamus tria tabernacula, tibi unum, Moysi unum, et Eliæ unum.
5. Adhuc eo loquente, ecce nubes lucida obumbravit eos. Et ecce vox de nube, dicens: Hic est Filius meus dilectus, in quo mihi bene complacui: ipsum audite.
6. Et audientes discipuli ceciderunt in faciem suam, et timuerunt valde.
7. Et accessit Jesus, et tetigit eos: dixitque eis: Surgite, et nolite timere.
8. Levantes autem oculos suos, neminem viderunt, nisi solum Jesum.
9. Et descendentibus illis de monte, præcepit eis Jesus, dicens: Nemini dixeritis visionem, donec Filius hominis a mortuis resurgat.
10. Et interrogaverunt eum discipuli, dicentes: Quid ergo scribæ dicunt, quod Eliam oporteat primum venire?
11. At ille respondens, ait eis: Elias quidem venturus est, et restituet omnia.
12. Dico autem vobis, quia Elias jam venit, et non cognoverunt eum, sed fecerunt in eo quæcumque voluerunt. Sic et Filius hominis passurus est ab eis.
13. Tunc intellexerunt discipuli, quia de Joanne Baptista dixisset eis.
14. Et cum venisset ad turbam, accessit ad eum homo genibus provolutus ante eum, dicens: Domine, miserere filio meo, quia lunaticus est, et male patitur: nam sæpe cadit in ignem, et crebro in aquam.
15. Et obtuli eum discipulis tuis, et non potuerunt curare eum.
16. Respondens autem Jesus, ait: O generatio incredula, et perversa, quousque ero vobiscum? usquequo patiar vos? Afferte huc illum ad me.
17. Et increpavit illum Jesus, et exiit ab eo dæmonium, et curatus est puer ex illa hora.
18. Tunc accesserunt discipuli ad Jesum secreto, et dixerunt: Quare nos non potuimus ejicere illum?
19. Dixit illis Jesus: Propter incredulitatem vestram. Amen quippe dico vobis, si habueritis fidem sicut granum sinapis, dicetis monti huic: Transi hinc illuc, et transibit, et nihil impossibile erit vobis.
20. Hoc autem genus non ejicitur nisi per orationem et jejunium.
21. Conversantibus autem eis in Galilæa, dixit illis Jesus: Filius hominis tradendus est in manus hominum:
22. et occident eum, et tertia die resurget. Et contristati sunt vehementer.
23. Et cum venissent Capharnaum, accesserunt qui didrachma accipiebant ad Petrum, et dixerunt ei: Magister vester non solvit didrachma?
24. Ait: Etiam. Et cum intrasset in domum, prævenit eum Jesus, dicens: Quid tibi videtur Simon? reges terræ a quibus accipiunt tributum vel censum? a filiis suis, an ab alienis?
25. Et ille dixit: Ab alienis. Dixit illi Jesus: Ergo liberi sunt filii.
26. Ut autem non scandalizemus eos, vade ad mare, et mitte hamum: et eum piscem, qui primus ascenderit, tolle: et aperto ore ejus, invenies staterem: illum sumens, da eis pro me et te.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 554: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 444: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 516: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 718: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 554: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 586: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 19: That is, a perfect faith; which in its properties, and its fruits, resembles the grain of mustard seed, in the parable, chap. 13. 31.
- Verse 23: A didrachma was half a sicle, or half a stater; that is, about 15 d. English: which was a tax laid upon every head for the service of the temple.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Feb 21, 2027: Second Sunday of Lent — Verse before the Gospel, Cf. Matthew 17:5
- Fri, Aug 6, 2027 (computed): Transfiguration of the Lord — Alleluia, Matthew 17:5
- Sat, Aug 7, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 17:14-20
- Mon, Aug 9, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Gospel, Matthew 17:22-27

6 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).