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 7:11

7:11 If you then, although you are evil, ⁴  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ⁵  to those who ask him!

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 10:33

10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Matius 11:11

11:11 “I tell you the truth, ⁶  among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least ⁷  in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.

Matius 12:5

12:5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

Matius 12:32

12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. ⁸  But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, ⁹  either in this age or in the age to come.

Matius 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹⁰  my brother and sister and mother.”

Matius 13:19

13:19 When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one ¹¹  comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; ¹²  this is the seed sown along the path.

Matius 14:36

14:36 They begged him if ¹³  they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Matius 16:24

16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to become my follower, ¹⁴  he must deny ¹⁵  himself, take up his cross, ¹⁶  and follow me.

Matius 20:25

20:25 But Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

Matius 22:10

22:10 And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matius 23:3

23:3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. ¹⁷ 

Matius 24:15

The Abomination of Desolation

24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation ¹⁸  – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

[5:18]  ¹ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[5:18]  ² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[5:18]  ³ 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).

[7:11]  ⁴ tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated concessively.

[7:11]  ⁵ 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.

[11:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[11:11]  ⁷ sn After John comes a shift of eras. The new era is so great that the lowest member of it (the one who is least in the kingdom of God) is greater than the greatest one of the previous era.

[12:32]  ⁸ tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”

[12:32]  ⁹ tn Grk “it will not be forgiven him.”

[12:32]  sn Whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. This passage has troubled many people, who have wondered whether or not they have committed this sin. Three things must be kept in mind: (1) the nature of the sin is to ascribe what is the obvious work of the Holy Spirit (e.g., releasing people from Satan’s power) to Satan himself; (2) it is not simply a momentary doubt or sinful attitude, but is indeed a settled condition which opposes the Spirit’s work, as typified by the religious leaders who opposed Jesus; and (3) a person who is concerned about it has probably never committed this sin, for those who commit it here (i.e., the religious leaders) are not in the least concerned about Jesus’ warning.

[12:50]  ¹⁰ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

[13:19]  ¹¹ sn Interestingly, the synoptic parallels each use a different word for Satan here: Mark 4:15 has “Satan,” while Luke 8:12 has “the devil.” This illustrates the fluidity of the gospel tradition in often using synonyms at the same point of the parallel tradition.

[13:19]  ¹² sn The word of Jesus has the potential to save if it germinates in a person’s heart, something the devil is very much against.

[14:36]  ¹³ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”

[16:24]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “to come after me.”

[16:24]  ¹⁵ tn This translation better expresses the force of the Greek third person imperative than the traditional “let him deny,” which could be understood as merely permissive.

[16:24]  ¹⁶ sn To bear the cross means to accept the rejection of the world for turning to Jesus and following him. Discipleship involves a death that is like a crucifixion; see Gal 6:14.

[23:3]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “for they say and do not do.”

[24:15]  ¹⁸ sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167 b.c., the words of Jesus seem to indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but that there was (from Jesus’ perspective) still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in a.d. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age (cf. Mark 13:14, 19, 24; Rev 3:10).