Matius 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ¹  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matius 8:8

8:8 But the centurion replied, ²  “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Instead, just say the word and my servant will be healed.

Matius 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ³  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ⁴  the miracles ⁵  done in you had been done in Tyre ⁶  and Sidon, ⁷  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matius 11:23

11:23 And you, Capernaum, ⁸  will you be exalted to heaven? ⁹  No, you will be thrown down to Hades! ¹⁰  For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Matius 13:17

13:17 For I tell you the truth, ¹¹  many prophets and righteous people longed to see ¹²  what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Matius 13:22

13:22 The ¹³  seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth ¹⁴  choke the word, ¹⁵  so it produces nothing.

Matius 21:32

21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although ¹⁶  you saw this, you did not later change your minds ¹⁷  and believe him.

Matius 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ¹⁸  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ¹⁹  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ²⁰  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Matius 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ²¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ²²  and when you get one, ²³  you make him twice as much a child of hell ²⁴  as yourselves!

[5:45]  ¹ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

[8:8]  ² tn Grk “But answering, the centurion replied.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant and has not been translated.

[11:21]  ³ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

[11:21]  ⁴ tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

[11:21]  ⁵ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

[11:21]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:21]  ⁷ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”

[11:21]  map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:23]  ⁸ sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.

[11:23]  map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.

[11:23]  ⁹ tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.

[11:23]  ¹⁰ sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).

[13:17]  ¹¹ tn Grk “truly (ἀμήν, amhn) I say to you.”

[13:17]  ¹² sn This is what past prophets and righteous people had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.

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

[13:22]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

[13:22]  ¹⁵ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

[21:32]  ¹⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:32]  ¹⁷ sn The word translated change your minds is the same verb used in v. 29 (there translated had a change of heart). Jesus is making an obvious comparison here, in which the religious leaders are viewed as the disobedient son.

[23:13]  ¹⁸ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:13]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “Woe to you…because you…” The causal particle ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated here for rhetorical effect (and so throughout this chapter).

[23:13]  ²⁰ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”

[23:15]  ²¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ²² tn Or “one proselyte.”

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

[23:15]  ²⁴ 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.