Matius 10:27

10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, ¹  proclaim from the housetops. ² 

Matius 11:1

11:1 When ³  Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

Matius 12:15

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12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great ⁴  crowds ⁵  followed him, and he healed them all.

[10:27]  ¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

[10:27]  ² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.

[11:1]  ³ tn Grk “And it happened when.” The introductory phrase καὶ ἐγένετο (kai egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[12:15]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[12:15]  ⁵ tc א B pc lat read only πολλοί (polloi, “many”) here, the first hand of N reads ὄχλοι (ocloi, “crowds”), while virtually all the rest of the witnesses have ὄχλοι πολλοί (ocloi polloi, “great crowds”). In spite of the good quality of both א and B (especially in combination), and the testimony of the Latin witnesses, the longer reading is most likely correct; the shorter readings were probably due to homoioteleuton.