Matius 7:4

7:4 Or how can you say ¹  to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

Matius 8:20

8:20 Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky ²  have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” ³ 

Matius 13:5

13:5 Other ⁴  seeds fell on rocky ground ⁵  where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep. ⁶ 

Matius 21:22

21:22 And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, ⁷  you will receive.”

Matius 24:38

24:38 For in those days before the flood, people ⁸  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

Matius 26:57

Condemned by the Sanhedrin

26:57 Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house ⁹  the experts in the law ¹⁰  and the elders had gathered.

[7:4]  ¹ tn Grk “how will you say?”

[8:20]  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).

[8:20]  ³ sn Jesus’ reply is simply this: Does the man understand the rejection he will be facing? Jesus has no home in the world (the Son of Man has no place to lay his head).

[13:5]  ⁴ tn Here and in vv. 7 and 8 δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:5]  ⁵ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

[13:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

[21:22]  ⁷ tn Grk “believing”; the participle here is conditional.

[24:38]  ⁸ tn Grk “they,” but in an indefinite sense, “people.”

[26:57]  ⁹ tn Grk “where.”

[26:57]  ¹⁰ tn Or “where the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.