Matius 5:18

5:18 I ¹  tell you the truth, ²  until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter ³  will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matius 6:16

Proper Fasting

6:16 “When ⁴  you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive ⁵  so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, ⁶  they have their reward.

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 13:22

13:22 The ⁷  seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth ⁸  choke the word, ⁹  so it produces nothing.

Matius 13:32

13:32 It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest garden plant and becomes a tree, ¹⁰  so that the wild birds ¹¹  come and nest in its branches.” ¹² 

Matius 14:15

14:15 When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, “This is an isolated place ¹³  and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Matius 15:28

15:28 Then ¹⁴  Jesus answered her, “Woman, ¹⁵  your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Matius 18:12

18:12 What do you think? If someone ¹⁶  owns a hundred ¹⁷  sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? ¹⁸ 

Matius 18:19

18:19 Again, I tell you the truth, ¹⁹  if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. ²⁰ 

Matius 19:1

Questions About Divorce

19:1 Now when ²¹  Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. ²² 

Matius 20:8

20:8 When ²³  it was evening ²⁴  the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay ²⁵  starting with the last hired until the first.’

Matius 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ²⁶  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ²⁷  and when you get one, ²⁸  you make him twice as much a child of hell ²⁹  as yourselves!

Matius 26:42

26:42 He went away a second time and prayed, ³⁰  “My Father, if this cup ³¹  cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”

Matius 27:24

Jesus is Condemned and Mocked

27:24 When ³²  Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!” ³³ 

Matius 27:54

27:54 Now when the centurion ³⁴  and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said, “Truly this one was God’s Son!”

[5:18]  ¹ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[5:18]  ² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[5:18]  ³ tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”

[5:18]  sn The smallest letter refers to the smallest Hebrew letter (yod) and the stroke of a letter to a serif (a hook or projection on a Hebrew letter).

[6:16]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[6:16]  ⁵ tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”

[6:16]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[13:22]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:22]  ⁸ tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

[13:22]  ⁹ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

[13:32]  ¹⁰ sn This is rhetorical hyperbole, since technically a mustard plant is not a tree. This could refer to one of two types of mustard plant popular in Palestine and would be either ten or twenty-five ft (3 or 7.5 m) tall.

[13:32]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).

[13:32]  ¹² sn The point of the parable seems to be that while the kingdom of God may appear to have insignificant and unnoticeable beginnings (i.e., in the ministry of Jesus), it will someday (i.e., at the second advent) be great and quite expansive. The kingdom, however, is not to be equated with the church, but rather the church is an expression of the kingdom. Also, there is important OT background in the image of the mustard seed that grew and became a tree: Ezek 17:22-24 pictures the reemergence of the Davidic house where people can find calm and shelter. Like the mustard seed, it would start out small but grow to significant size.

[14:15]  ¹³ tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).

[15:28]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “Then answering, Jesus said to her.” This expression has been simplified in the translation.

[15:28]  ¹⁵ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.

[18:12]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “a certain man.” The Greek word ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a somewhat generic sense.

[18:12]  ¹⁷ sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.

[18:12]  ¹⁸ sn Look for the one that went astray. The parable pictures God’s pursuit of the sinner. On the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, see John 10:1-18.

[18:19]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[18:19]  ²⁰ tn Grk “if two of you…agree about whatever they ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.” The passive construction has been translated as an active one in keeping with contemporary English style, and the pronouns, which change from second person plural to third person plural in the Greek text, have been consistently translated as second person plural.

[19:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “it happened when.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[19:1]  ²² tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity. The region referred to here is sometimes known as Transjordan (i.e., “across the Jordan”).

[20:8]  ²³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[20:8]  ²⁴ sn That is, six o’clock in the evening, the hour to pay day laborers. See Lev 19:13b.

[20:8]  ²⁵ tc ‡ Most witnesses (including B D W Θ Ë^1,13 33^vid Ï latt sy) have αὐτοῖς (autois, “to them”) after ἀπόδος (apodos, “give the pay”), but this seems to be a motivated reading, clarifying the indirect object. The omission is supported by א C L Z 085 Or. Nevertheless, NA²⁷ includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.

[23:15]  ²⁶ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ²⁷ tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ²⁸ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ²⁹ tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”

[23:15]  sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.

[26:42]  ³⁰ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:42]  ³¹ tn Grk “this”; the referent (the cup) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:24]  ³² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[27:24]  ³³ sn You take care of it yourselves! Compare the response of the chief priests and elders to Judas in 27:4. The expression is identical except that in 27:4 it is singular and here it is plural.

[27:54]  ³⁴ sn See the note on the word centurion in Matt 8:5.