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 ¹  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matius 21:16

21:16 and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?” ² 

Matius 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ³  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ⁴  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ⁵  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

[6:5]  ¹ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[21:16]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 8:2.

[23:13]  ³ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:13]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”