Matius 5:15

5:15 People ¹  do not light a lamp and put it under a basket ²  but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

Matius 18:28

18:28 After ³  he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. ⁴  So ⁵  he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, ⁶  saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ ⁷ 

[5:15]  ¹ tn Grk “Nor do they light.” The plural in Greek is indefinite, referring to people in general.

[5:15]  ² tn Or “a bowl”; this refers to any container for dry material of about eight liters (two gallons) capacity. It could be translated “basket, box, bowl” (L&N 6.151).

[18:28]  ³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[18:28]  ⁴ tn Grk “one hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be about three month’s pay.

[18:28]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so.” A new sentence was started at this point in the translation in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[18:28]  ⁶ tn Grk “and he grabbed him and started choking him.”

[18:28]  ⁷ tn The word “me” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.