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Money Changers

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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Κollubistes and kermatistes , both denoting dealers in small coin (kollubos and kerma the profit money, 1 1/2d.). They set up tables in the court of the Gentiles, to supply at a profit foreign Jews with the Jewish half shekels (1 shillings, 3 pence) required for the yearly payment into the temple treasury, in exchange for foreign coin. The "exchangers" (Matthew 25:27), trapezitai , were bankers.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Money Changers'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​m/money-changers.html. 1949.
 
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