Matius 6:1

Pure-hearted Giving

6:1 “Be ¹  careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. ²  Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Matius 6:23

6:23 But if your eye is diseased, ³  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matius 11:10

11:10 This is the one about whom it is written:

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, ⁴ 

who will prepare your way before you.’ ⁵ 

Matius 12:15

God’s Special Servant

12:15 Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great ⁶  crowds ⁷  followed him, and he healed them all.

Matius 12:46

Jesus’ True Family

12:46 While Jesus ⁸  was still speaking to the crowds, ⁹  his mother and brothers ¹⁰  came and ¹¹  stood outside, asking ¹²  to speak to him.

Matius 16:11

16:11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

Matius 19:13

Jesus and Little Children

19:13 Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. ¹³  But the disciples scolded those who brought them. ¹⁴ 

Matius 21:30

21:30 The father ¹⁵  went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ¹⁶  ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.

Matius 21:43

21:43 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people ¹⁷  who will produce its fruit.

Matius 23:5

23:5 They ¹⁸  do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries ¹⁹  wide and their tassels ²⁰  long.

Matius 24:15

The Abomination of Desolation

24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation ²¹  – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

[6:1]  ¹ tc ‡ Several mss (א L Z Θ Ë¹ 33 892 1241 1424 al) have δέ (de, “but, now”) at the beginning of this verse; the reading without δέ is supported by B D W 0250 ˹³ Ï lat. A decision is difficult, but apparently the conjunction was added by later scribes to indicate a transition in the thought-flow of the Sermon on the Mount. NA²⁷ has δέ in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.

[6:1]  ² tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”

[6:23]  ³ tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149).

[6:23]  sn There may be a slight wordplay here, as this term can also mean “evil,” so the figure uses a term that points to the real meaning of being careful as to what one pays attention to or looks at.

[11:10]  ⁴ tn Grk “before your face” (an idiom).

[11:10]  ⁵ sn The quotation is primarily from Mal 3:1 with pronouns from Exod 23:20. Here is the forerunner who points the way to the arrival of God’s salvation. His job is to prepare and guide the people, as the cloud did for Israel in the desert.

[12:15]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[12:15]  ⁷ 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.

[12:46]  ⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:46]  ⁹ tn Grk “crowds, behold, his mother.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[12:46]  ¹⁰ sn The issue of whether Jesus had brothers (siblings) has had a long history in the church. Epiphanius, in the 4th century, argued that Mary was a perpetual virgin and had no offspring other than Jesus. Others argued that these brothers were really cousins. Nothing in the text suggests any of this. See also John 7:3.

[12:46]  ¹¹ tn “His mother and brothers came and” is a translation of “behold, his mother and brothers came.”

[12:46]  ¹² tn Grk “seeking.”

[19:13]  ¹³ tn Grk “so that he would lay his hands on them and pray.”

[19:13]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the disciples scolded them.” In the translation the referent has been specified as “those who brought them,” since otherwise the statement could be understood to mean that the disciples scolded the children rather than their parents who brought them.

[21:30]  ¹⁵ tn “And he”; here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:30]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “And answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated. Here the referent (“this boy”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:43]  ¹⁷ tn Or “to a nation” (so KJV, NASB, NLT).

[23:5]  ¹⁸ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[23:5]  ¹⁹ sn Phylacteries were small leather cases containing OT scripture verses, worn on the arm and forehead by Jews, especially when praying. The custom was derived from such OT passages as Exod 13:9; 16; Deut 6:8; 11:18.

[23:5]  ²⁰ tn The term κράσπεδον (kraspedon) in some contexts could refer to the outer fringe of the garment (possibly in Mark 6:56). This edge could have been plain or decorated. L&N 6.180 states, “In Mt 23:5 κράσπεδον denotes the tassels worn at the four corners of the outer garment (see 6.194).”

[23:5]  sn Tassels refer to the tassels that a male Israelite was obligated to wear on the four corners of his outer garment according to the Mosaic law (Num 15:38; Deut 22:12).

[24:15]  ²¹ sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167 b.c., the words of Jesus seem to indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but that there was (from Jesus’ perspective) still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in a.d. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age (cf. Mark 13:14, 19, 24; Rev 3:10).