Text -- Matthew 6:16 (NET)

Proper Fasting

6:16 “When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Mat 6:16

¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

² tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”

³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”