2 Thessalonians 2:3

2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes ¹  and the man of lawlessness ²  is revealed, the son of destruction. ³ 

Matthew 13:19

13:19 When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one ⁴  comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; ⁵  this is the seed sown along the path.

Matthew 13:38

13:38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people ⁶  of the kingdom. The weeds are the people ⁷  of the evil one,

Matthew 13:1

The Parable of the Sower

13:1 On that day after Jesus went out of the house, he sat by the lake.

Matthew 2:13

The Escape to Egypt

2:13 After they had gone, an ⁸  angel of the Lord ⁹  appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod ¹⁰  is going to look for the child to kill him.”

Matthew 3:12

3:12 His winnowing fork ¹¹  is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, ¹²  but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” ¹³ 

Matthew 5:18

5:18 I ¹⁴  tell you the truth, ¹⁵  until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter ¹⁶  will pass from the law until everything takes place.

¹ tn Grk “for unless the rebellion comes first.” The clause about “the day” is understood from v. 2.

² tc Most mss (A D F G Ψ Ï lat sy) read ἁμαρτίας (Jamartia", “of sin”) here, but several important mss (א B 0278 6 81 1739 1881 al co) read ἀνομίας (anomia", “of lawlessness”). Although external support for ἁμαρτίας is broader, the generally earlier and better witnesses are on the side of ἀνομίας. Internally, since ἁμαρτία (Jamartia, “sin”) occurs nearly ten times as often as ἀνομία (anomia, “lawlessness”) in the corpus Paulinum, scribes would be expected to change the text to the more familiar term. At the same time, the mention of ἀνομία in v. 7 and ὁ ἄνομος (Jo anomo", “the lawless one”) in v. 8, both of which look back to v. 3, may have prompted scribes to change the text toward ἀνομίας. The internal evidence is thus fairly evenly balanced. Although a decision is difficult, ἀνομίας has slightly greater probability of authenticity than ἁμαρτίας.

³ tn Or “the one destined for destruction.”

⁴ sn Interestingly, the synoptic parallels each use a different word for Satan here: Mark 4:15 has “Satan,” while Luke 8:12 has “the devil.” This illustrates the fluidity of the gospel tradition in often using synonyms at the same point of the parallel tradition.

⁵ sn The word of Jesus has the potential to save if it germinates in a person’s heart, something the devil is very much against.

⁷ tn Grk “the sons of the kingdom.” This idiom refers to people who should properly be, or were traditionally regarded as, a part of God’s kingdom. L&N 11.13 translates the phrase: “people of God’s kingdom, God’s people.”

⁸ tn Grk “the sons of the evil one.” See the preceding note on the phrase “people of the kingdom” earlier in this verse, which is the opposite of this phrase. See also L&N 9.4; 11.13; 11.14.

¹⁰ tn Grk “behold, an angel.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

¹¹ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.

¹² sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Herod the Great was particularly ruthless regarding the succession to his throne.

¹³ sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.

¹⁴ tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

¹⁵ sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.

¹⁶ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

¹⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

¹⁸ tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”