Matius 11:10

11:10 This is the one about whom it is written:

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, ¹ 

who will prepare your way before you.’ ² 

Matius 12:18

12:18 “Here is ³  my servant whom I have chosen,

the one I love, in whom I take great delight. ⁴ 

I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

Matius 12:32

12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. ⁵  But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, ⁶  either in this age or in the age to come.

Matius 13:17

13:17 For I tell you the truth, ⁷  many prophets and righteous people longed to see ⁸  what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Matius 13:33

The Parable of the Yeast

13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with ⁹  three measures ¹⁰  of flour until all the dough had risen.” ¹¹ 

Matius 15:5

15:5 But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,” ¹² 

Matius 16:19

16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Matius 23:16

23:16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. ¹³  But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’

[11:10]  ¹ tn Grk “before your face” (an idiom).

[11:10]  ² sn The quotation is primarily from Mal 3:1 with pronouns from Exod 23:20. Here is the forerunner who points the way to the arrival of God’s salvation. His job is to prepare and guide the people, as the cloud did for Israel in the desert.

[12:18]  ³ tn Grk “Behold my servant.”

[12:18]  ⁴ tn Grk “in whom my soul is well pleased.”

[12:32]  ⁵ tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”

[12:32]  ⁶ 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.

[13:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “truly (ἀμήν, amhn) I say to you.”

[13:17]  ⁸ sn This is what past prophets and righteous people had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.

[13:33]  ⁹ tn Grk “hid in.”

[13:33]  ¹⁰ sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 pounds (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.

[13:33]  ¹¹ tn Grk “it was all leavened.”

[13:33]  sn The parable of the yeast and the dough teaches that the kingdom of God will start small but eventually grow to permeate everything. Jesus’ point was not to be deceived by its seemingly small start, the same point made in the parable of the mustard seed, which preceded this one.

[15:5]  ¹² tn Grk “is a gift,” that is, something dedicated to God.

[23:16]  ¹³ tn Grk “Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing.”