Matius 3:12

3:12 His winnowing fork ¹  is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, ²  but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” ³ 

Matius 10:25

10:25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!

Matius 14:3

14:3 For Herod had arrested John, bound him, ⁴  and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Matius 15:31

15:31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

Matius 16:22

16:22 So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: ⁵  “God forbid, ⁶  Lord! This must not happen to you!”

Matius 25:20

25:20 The ⁷  one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, ‘Sir, ⁸  you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’

Matius 25:22

25:22 The ⁹  one with the two talents also came and said, ‘Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.’

Matius 25:44

25:44 Then they too will answer, ¹⁰  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’

Matius 26:71

26:71 When ¹¹  he went out to the gateway, another slave girl ¹²  saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

Matius 28:6

28:6 He is not here, for he has been raised, ¹³  just as he said. Come and see the place where he ¹⁴  was lying.

[3:12]  ¹ sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.

[3:12]  ² tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

[3:12]  ³ sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.

[14:3]  ⁴ tc ‡ Most witnesses (א² C D L W Z Θ 0106 Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat) read αὐτόν (auton, “him”) here as a way of clarifying the direct object; various important witnesses lack the word, however (א* B 700 pc ff¹ h q). The original wording most likely lacked it, but it has been included here due to English style. NA²⁷ includes the word in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.

[16:22]  ⁵ tn Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[16:22]  ⁶ tn Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”

[25:20]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[25:20]  ⁸ tn Grk Or “Lord; or “Master” (and so throughout this paragraph).

[25:22]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[25:44]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Then they will answer, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:71]  ¹¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:71]  ¹² tn The words “slave girl” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by the feminine singular form ἄλλη (allh).

[28:6]  ¹³ tn The verb here is passive (ἠγέρθη, hgerqh). This “divine passive” (see ExSyn 437-38) points to the fact that Jesus was raised by God.

[28:6]  ¹⁴ tc Expansions on the text, especially when the Lord is the subject, are a common scribal activity. In this instance, since the subject is embedded in the verb, three major variants have emerged to make the subject explicit: ὁ κύριος (Jo kurio", “the Lord”; A C D L W 0148 Ë^1,13 Ï lat), τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου (to swma tou kuriou, “the body of the Lord”; 1424 pc), and ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (Jo Ihsou", “Jesus”; Φ). The reading with no explicit subject, however, is superior on both internal and external grounds, being supported by א B Θ 33 892* pc co.