Matius 2:6

2:6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

are in no way least among the rulers of Judah,

for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’” ¹ 

Matius 3:12

3:12 His winnowing fork ²  is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, ³  but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” ⁴ 

Matius 6:24

6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate ⁵  the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise ⁶  the other. You cannot serve God and money. ⁷ 

Matius 9:15

9:15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests ⁸  cannot mourn while the bridegroom ⁹  is with them, can they? But the days ¹⁰  are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, ¹¹  and then they will fast.

Matius 11:23

11:23 And you, Capernaum, ¹²  will you be exalted to heaven? ¹³  No, you will be thrown down to Hades! ¹⁴  For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Matius 12:18

12:18 “Here is ¹⁵  my servant whom I have chosen,

the one I love, in whom I take great delight. ¹⁶ 

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

Matius 12:42

12:42 The queen of the South ¹⁷  will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, ¹⁸  something greater than Solomon is here!

Matius 19:29

19:29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much ¹⁹  and will inherit eternal life.

Matius 21:24

21:24 Jesus ²⁰  answered them, “I will also ask you one question. If you answer me then I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

Matius 23:34

23:34 “For this reason I ²¹  am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, ²²  some of whom you will kill and crucify, ²³  and some you will flog ²⁴  in your synagogues ²⁵  and pursue from town to town,

Matius 24:31

24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven ²⁶  to the other.

Matius 26:24

26:24 The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

Matius 26:29

26:29 I ²⁷  tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit ²⁸  of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Matius 26:64

26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand ²⁹  of the Power ³⁰  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ³¹ 

[2:6]  ¹ sn A quotation from Mic 5:2.

[3:12]  ² sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.

[3:12]  ³ tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

[3:12]  ⁴ sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.

[6:24]  ⁵ sn The contrast between hate and love here is rhetorical. The point is that one will choose the favorite if a choice has to be made.

[6:24]  ⁶ tn Or “and treat [the other] with contempt.”

[6:24]  ⁷ tn Grk “God and mammon.”

[6:24]  sn The term money is used to translate mammon, the Aramaic term for wealth or possessions. The point is not that money is inherently evil, but that it is often misused so that it is a means of evil; see 1 Tim 6:6-10, 17-19. God must be first, not money or possessions.

[9:15]  ⁸ tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

[9:15]  ⁹ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

[9:15]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “days.”

[9:15]  ¹¹ sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 16:13ff.

[11:23]  ¹² sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.

[11:23]  map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.

[11:23]  ¹³ tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.

[11:23]  ¹⁴ sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).

[12:18]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Behold my servant.”

[12:18]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “in whom my soul is well pleased.”

[12:42]  ¹⁷ sn On the queen of the South see 1 Kgs 10:1-3 and 2 Chr 9:1-12, as well as Josephus, Ant. 8.6.5-6 (8.165-175). The South most likely refers to modern southwest Arabia, possibly the eastern part of modern Yemen, although there is an ancient tradition reflected in Josephus which identifies this geo-political entity as Ethiopia.

[12:42]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “behold.”

[19:29]  ¹⁹ sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (a hundred times as much) and (2) eternal life will be given.

[21:24]  ²⁰ tn Grk “answering, Jesus said to them.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[23:34]  ²¹ tn Grk “behold I am sending.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[23:34]  ²² tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:34]  ²³ sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.

[23:34]  ²⁴ tn BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1.a states, “of flogging as a punishment decreed by the synagogue (Dt 25:2f; s. the Mishna Tractate Sanhedrin-Makkoth, edited w. notes by SKrauss ’33) w. acc. of pers. Mt 10:17; 23:34.”

[23:34]  ²⁵ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[24:31]  ²⁶ tn Or “of the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[26:29]  ²⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:29]  ²⁸ tn Grk “produce” (“the produce of the vine” is a figurative expression for wine).

[26:64]  ²⁹ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[26:64]  ³⁰ sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

[26:64]  ³¹ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).