Quoting%20commentary for Ketubot 51:5

אין בתר דקנסינהו עזרא ודלמא איקרו ויהבו ליה אמר רב חסדא הכא במאי עסקינן כגון דמוחזק לן באבוה דהאי דכהן הוא ונפק עליה קלא דבן גרושה ובן חלוצה הוא וחלקו ליה לדידיה מעשר בבית הגרנות

Yes. after Ezra had punished them. But perhaps it happened that they gave it to him? Hisda said: What are we dealing with here? A case where we know that his father was a priest and a rumor came out concerning him that he was the son of a divorced woman or a halutzah and [yet] they gave him tithe at the threshing floor.

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