Matius 5:7

5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Matius 10:6

10:6 Go ¹  instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matius 15:8-9

15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart ²  is far from me,

15:9 and they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” ³ 

Matius 27:52

27:52 And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had died ⁴  were raised.

[10:6]  ¹ tn Grk “But go.” The Greek μᾶλλον (mallon, “rather, instead”) conveys the adversative nuance here so that δέ (de) has not been translated.

[15:8]  ² tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

[15:9]  ³ sn A quotation from Isa 29:13.

[27:52]  ⁴ tn The verb κοιμάω (koimaw) literally means “sleep,” but it is often used in the Bible as a euphemism for the death of a believer.