Matius 12:45

12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so ¹  the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

Matius 13:15

13:15 For the heart of this people has become dull;

they are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes,

so that they would not see with their eyes

and hear with their ears

and understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them.’ ² 

Matius 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ³  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ⁴  and when you get one, ⁵  you make him twice as much a child of hell ⁶  as yourselves!

[12:45]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.

[13:15]  ² sn A quotation from Isa 6:9-10. Thus parables both conceal or reveal depending on whether one is open to hearing what they teach.

[23:15]  ³ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ⁴ tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ⁶ tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”

[23:15]  sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.