Matius 6:2

6:2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, ¹  do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues ²  and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, ³  they have their reward.

Matius 6:5

Private Prayer

6:5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues ⁴  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matius 6:16

Proper Fasting

6:16 “When ⁵  you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive ⁶  so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, ⁷  they have their reward.

Matius 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ⁸  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ⁹  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ¹⁰  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 ¹¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ¹²  and when you get one, ¹³  you make him twice as much a child of hell ¹⁴  as yourselves!

[6:2]  ¹ tn Grk “give alms,” but this term is not in common use today. The giving of alms was highly regarded in the ancient world (Deut 15:7-11).

[6:2]  ² sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[6:2]  ³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[6:5]  ⁴ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[6:16]  ⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[6:16]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[23:13]  ⁸ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:13]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”

[23:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ¹² tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ¹⁴ 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.