Matius 3:12

3:12 His winnowing fork ¹  is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, ²  but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” ³ 

Matius 6:19

Lasting Treasure

6:19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth ⁴  and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Matius 13:21

13:21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ⁵  when ⁶  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

[3:12]  ¹ sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.

[3:12]  ² tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

[3:12]  ³ sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.

[6:19]  ⁴ tn The term σής (shs) refers to moths in general. It is specifically the larvae of moths that destroy clothing by eating holes in it (L&N 4.49; BDAG 922 s.v.). See Jas 5:2, which mentions “moth-eaten” clothing.

[13:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “is temporary.”

[13:21]  ⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.