24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”
25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”
26 “From others,” Peter answered.
“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
Peter and other disciples of Jesus were fishermen.
The lyrics of the King Gizzard song advocate against fishing.
Fishing for fishies
Don't make them feel happyOr me neither
I feel so sorry for fishies
It seems like cruelty to me
And I'm hungry, leave them be
I don't want to be fishing for fish
I just want to let them freely swim
I don't want to be fishing for fish
I just want to let them freely swim
All heights honk
Egos tying knots being fate
Don't do it
You ain't a God
Don't hunt salmon, cod or carp
In our day, we have the environmental problem of overfishing and possible extinction of species. This was not an issue in Jesus' era, two-thousand years ago.
I'm still thinking and pondering.
