Matthew 1:18

The Birth of Jesus Christ

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ¹  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 5:25

5:25 Reach agreement ²  quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, ³  or he ⁴  may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.

Matthew 9:15

9:15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests ⁵  cannot mourn while the bridegroom ⁶  is with them, can they? But the days ⁷  are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, ⁸  and then they will fast.

Matthew 11:23

11:23 And you, Capernaum, ⁹  will you be exalted to heaven? ¹⁰  No, you will be thrown down to Hades! ¹¹  For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

Matthew 13:33

The Parable of the Yeast

13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with ¹²  three measures ¹³  of flour until all the dough had risen.” ¹⁴ 

Matthew 18:17

18:17 If ¹⁵  he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If ¹⁶  he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like ¹⁷  a Gentile ¹⁸  or a tax collector. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).

² tn Grk “Make friends.”

³ tn The words “to court” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁴ tn Grk “the accuser.”

³ tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

⁴ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

⁵ tn Grk “days.”

⁶ sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 16:13ff.

⁴ sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.

⁵ tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.

⁶ sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).

⁵ tn Grk “hid in.”

⁶ sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 pounds (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.

⁷ tn Grk “it was all leavened.”

⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁸ tn Grk “let him be to you as.”

⁹ tn Or “a pagan.”

¹⁰ sn To treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector means not to associate with such a person. See the note on tax collectors in 5:46.