Matius 4:4

4:4 But he answered, ¹  “It is written, ‘Man ²  does not live ³  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” ⁴ 

Matius 5:18

5:18 I ⁵  tell you the truth, ⁶  until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter ⁷  will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matius 6:30

6:30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, ⁸  which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ⁹  won’t he clothe you even more, ¹⁰  you people of little faith?

Matius 6:34

6:34 So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own. ¹¹ 

Matius 7:11

7:11 If you then, although you are evil, ¹²  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ¹³  to those who ask him!

Matius 7:16

7:16 You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes are not gathered ¹⁴  from thorns or figs from thistles, are they? ¹⁵ 

Matius 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ¹⁶  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ¹⁷  a wise man ¹⁸  who built his house on rock.

Matius 7:26

7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matius 10:11

10:11 Whenever ¹⁹  you enter a town or village, ²⁰  find out who is worthy there ²¹  and stay with them ²²  until you leave.

Matius 10:29

10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? ²³  Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ²⁴ 

Matius 12:7

12:7 If ²⁵  you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ ²⁶  you would not have condemned the innocent.

Matius 14:14

14:14 As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Matius 16:22

16:22 So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: ²⁷  “God forbid, ²⁸  Lord! This must not happen to you!”

Matius 18:3

18:3 and said, “I tell you the truth, ²⁹  unless you turn around and become like little children, ³⁰  you will never ³¹  enter the kingdom of heaven!

Matius 18:13

18:13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, ³²  he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

Matius 19:27

19:27 Then Peter said ³³  to him, “Look, ³⁴  we have left everything to follow you! ³⁵  What then will there be for us?”

Matius 24:43

24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief ³⁶  was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matius 26:35

26:35 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all the disciples said the same thing.

Matius 26:53

26:53 Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions ³⁷  of angels right now?

Matius 26:58

26:58 But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After ³⁸  going in, he sat with the guards ³⁹  to see the outcome.

Matius 27:42

27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down ⁴⁰  now from the cross, we will believe in him!

[4:4]  ¹ tn Grk “answering, he said.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the phrase has been changed for clarity.

[4:4]  ² tn Or “a person.” Greek ὁ ἄνθρωπος (Jo anqrwpo") is used generically for humanity. The translation “man” is used because the emphasis in Jesus’ response seems to be on his dependence on God as a man.

[4:4]  ³ tn Grk “will not live.” The verb in Greek is a future tense, but it is unclear whether it is meant to be taken as a command (also known as an imperatival future) or as a statement of reality (predictive future).

[4:4]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 8:3.

[5:18]  ⁵ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[5:18]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[5:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”

[5:18]  sn The smallest letter refers to the smallest Hebrew letter (yod) and the stroke of a letter to a serif (a hook or projection on a Hebrew letter).

[6:30]  ⁸ tn Grk “grass of the field.”

[6:30]  ⁹ tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

[6:30]  sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.

[6:30]  ¹⁰ sn The phrase even more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.

[6:34]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Sufficient for the day is its evil.”

[7:11]  ¹² tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated concessively.

[7:11]  ¹³ sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.

[7:16]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “They do not gather.” This has been simplified to the passive voice in the translation since the subject “they” is not specified further in the context.

[7:16]  ¹⁵ sn The statement illustrates the principle: That which cannot produce fruit does not produce fruit.

[7:24]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ¹⁸ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[10:11]  ¹⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:11]  ²⁰ tn Grk “Into whatever town or village you enter.” This acts as a distributive, meaning every town or village they enter; this is expressed more naturally in English as “whenever you enter a town or village.”

[10:11]  ²¹ tn Grk “in it” (referring to the city or village).

[10:11]  ²² tn Grk “there.” This was translated as “with them” to avoid redundancy in English and to clarify where the disciples were to stay.

[10:11]  sn Jesus telling his disciples to stay with them in one house contrasts with the practice of religious philosophers in the ancient world who went from house to house begging.

[10:29]  ²³ 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]  ²⁴ tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”

[12:7]  ²⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[12:7]  ²⁶ sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 9:13).

[16:22]  ²⁷ tn Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[16:22]  ²⁸ tn Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”

[18:3]  ²⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[18:3]  ³⁰ sn The point of the comparison become like little children has more to do with a child’s trusting spirit, as well as willingness to be dependent and receive from others, than any inherent humility the child might possess.

[18:3]  ³¹ tn The negation in Greek (οὐ μή, ou mh) is very strong here.

[18:13]  ³² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[19:27]  ³³ tn Grk “Then answering, Peter said.” This construction is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation.

[19:27]  ³⁴ sn Peter wants reassurance that the disciples’ response and sacrifice have been noticed.

[19:27]  ³⁵ tn Grk “We have left everything and followed you.” Koine Greek often used paratactic structure when hypotactic was implied.

[24:43]  ³⁶ sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15.

[26:53]  ³⁷ sn A legion was a Roman army unit of about 6,000 soldiers, so twelve legions would be 72,000.

[26:58]  ³⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[26:58]  ³⁹ sn The guards would have been the guards of the chief priests who had accompanied Judas to arrest Jesus.

[27:42]  ⁴⁰ tn Here the aorist imperative καταβάτω (katabatw) has been translated as a conditional imperative. This fits the pattern of other conditional imperatives (imperative + καί + future indicative) outlined by ExSyn 489.