Matius 6:5

Private Prayer

6:5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues ¹  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matius 6:26

6:26 Look at the birds in the sky: ²  They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds ³  them. Aren’t you more valuable ⁴  than they are?

Matius 21:19

21:19 After noticing a fig tree ⁵  by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.

Matius 24:30

24:30 Then ⁶  the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ⁷  and ⁸  all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They ⁹  will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven ¹⁰  with power and great glory.

[6:5]  ¹ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[6:26]  ² tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).

[6:26]  ³ tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”

[6:26]  ⁴ tn Grk “of more value.”

[21:19]  ⁵ tn Grk “one fig tree.”

[21:19]  sn The fig tree is a variation on the picture of a vine as representing the nation; see Isa 5:1-7.

[24:30]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ⁷ tn Or “in the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[24:30]  ⁸ tn Here τότε (tote, “then”) has not been translated to avoid redundancy in English.

[24:30]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ¹⁰ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13. Here is Jesus returning with full authority to judge.