[74]  4 Drachmas Temple Tax

24 [upon] their coming into Capernaum the [ones] collecting the 2-drachmas [temple tax] approached Peter and said: Your teacher is not paying the 2-drachmas [temple tax]?
25 He said: Yes. However, having entered the house, Jesus got ahead of/anticipated him saying: What do you think, Simon? From which [ones] do the kings of the earth receive duties or head-tax? From their sons or from the foreign [ones]?
26 When he said: From the foreign [ones], Jesus said to him: Really, then, the sons are free.
27 But that we do not cause them to stumble: You go to the sea, cast a hook, and lift up the first fish having come up and, when you open its mouth, you will find a stater-coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you (Matthew 17).

Literal CNC (5,3,1,3,2) = 14 ( 2 Threads) 
Literal INC: Capernaum, 2-Drachmas (2), Peter, Teacher, House, Jesus (2), Simon, Sea, Hook, Fish, Mouth, Stater-coin =12 

A drachma was a day's wage. So to get 4 days wages from one fish was good. In this way possibly neither Peter nor Jesus nor any human paid temple tax out of their own money, which might have avoided a problem with a temple tax not mentioned in the Law of Moses.

This interpretation needs to be revised...

'Receive duties or head tax' are Successive Alternatives, covered by the Successive Alternatives Principle. This literal account has one word symbolic meaning. So both alternatives occur in that meaning. The trouble with this account is that Fish and Sea and Hook only recited once and so are either literal or Jesus was speaking symbolically to Peter when he suggested his innovative tax solution. If Jesus was speaking literally, then why would Peter not just have just paid 4 Drachma himself, it was only around 3½ denarii, which is basically 3½ days work, or just one good catch for an experienced fisherman? If on the other hand Jesus was speaking symbolically, then Peter was to go to someone not in the congregation and to hook him with the truth and then when that person opened his mouth and started praising the Lord, the holy spirit would move him to contribute 4 drachmas, which Peter would then pay to the temple tax collectors. This would have the advantage that neither Peter nor Jesus themselves would pay the temple tax. The newly interested person would presumably pay the tax before he was baptised.  

There are two binary questions: 

Does your teacher not pay the 2 Drachmas?
From whom do the kings of the earth receive duties or head tax? From their sons or from the strangers?

The literal answers are: Yes he pays and Strangers, the word symbolic answers are: No he doesn't pay and Sons. Paul did not pay the temple tax for FDS2, he was baptised from heaven as Elijah 2. Peter must have joined FDS2 and paid his tax. Total tax of 4 Drachmas is for 4 temples. The sons of FDS4 by water baptism pay the duties and the poll tax. If they pay these taxes then they are free from sin.

Jesus' last words to Peter that John recorded were:

18 Most truly I say to you, When you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk about where you wanted. But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands and another [man] will gird you and bear you where you do not wish.
19 This he said to signify by what sort of death he would glorify God. So, when he had said this, he said to him: Continue following me (John 21).

Peter is mislead for 10 times by WSS1 before he joins FDS2 and then dies. Jesus warns him to follow the Master (me) and not the slave (another).