Matius 5:18

5:18 I ¹  tell you the truth, ²  until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter ³  will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matius 18:28

18:28 After ⁴  he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. ⁵  So ⁶  he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, ⁷  saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ ⁸ 

Matius 24:39

24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. ⁹  It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

³ tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”

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).

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁵ tn Grk “one hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be about three month’s pay.

⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so.” A new sentence was started at this point in the translation in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

⁷ tn Grk “and he grabbed him and started choking him.”

⁸ tn The word “me” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

⁹ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

¹⁰ tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”