Matius 5:45
Konteks5:45 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 19:19
Konteks19:19 honor your father and mother, 2 and love your neighbor as yourself.” 3
Matius 10:29
Konteks10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? 4 Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 5
[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.
[19:19] 2 sn A quotation from Exod 20:12-16; Deut 5:16-20.
[19:19] 3 sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.
[10:29] 4 sn The penny refers to an assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest items sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.
[10:29] 5 tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”