Text -- Matthew 10:27 (NET)

10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 10:27

¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.