Text -- Matthew 5:26 (NET)

5:26 I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 5:26

¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

² tn Here the English word “penny” is used as opposed to the parallel in Luke 12:59 where “cent” appears since the Greek word there is different and refers to a different but similar coin.

sn The penny here was a quadrans, a Roman copper coin worth 1/64 of a denarius (L&N 6.78). The parallel passage in Luke 12:59 mentions the lepton, equal to one-half of a quadrans and thus the smallest coin available.