Matthew 10:41

10:41 Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever ¹  receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

Matthew 25:46

25:46 And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 23:35

23:35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, ²  whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 1:19

1:19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, ³  was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her ⁴  privately.

Matthew 20:4

20:4 He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

Matthew 23:28

23:28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 27:4

27:4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ⁵  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 9:13

9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ⁶  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 13:43

13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ⁷  The one who has ears had better listen! ⁸ 

Matthew 13:49

13:49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

Matthew 23:29

23:29 “Woe to you, experts in the law ⁹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You ¹⁰  build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves ¹¹  of the righteous.

Matthew 25:37

25:37 Then the righteous will answer him, ¹²  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

Matthew 13:17

13:17 For I tell you the truth, ¹³  many prophets and righteous people longed to see ¹⁴  what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Matthew 27:19

27:19 As ¹⁵  he was sitting on the judgment seat, ¹⁶  his wife sent a message ¹⁷  to him: ¹⁸  “Have nothing to do with that innocent man; ¹⁹  I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream ²⁰  about him today.”

¹ tn Grk “And whoever.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

² sn Spelling of this name (Βαραχίου, Baraciou) varies among the English versions: “Barachiah” (RSV, NRSV); “Berechiah” (NASB); “Berachiah” (NIV).

³ tn Grk “husband.” See following note for discussion.

⁴ tn Or “send her away.”

⁴ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

⁵ sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 12:7).

⁶ sn An allusion to Dan 12:3.

⁷ tn The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let him hear,” which sounds more like a permissive than an imperative to the modern English reader. This was Jesus’ common expression to listen and heed carefully (cf. Matt 11:15, 13:9; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 8:8, 14:35).

⁷ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

⁸ tn Grk “Because you.” Here ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated.

⁹ tn Or perhaps “the monuments” (see L&N 7.75-76).

⁸ tn Grk “answer him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

⁹ tn Grk “truly (ἀμήν, amhn) I say to you.”

¹⁰ sn This is what past prophets and righteous people had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.

¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹¹ tn Or “the judge’s seat.”

¹² tn The word “message” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

¹³ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγουσα (legousa) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

¹⁴ tn The Greek particle γάρ (gar, “for”) has not been translated here.

¹⁵ tn Or “suffered greatly in a dream.” See the discussion on the construction κατ᾿ ὄναρ (kat’ onar) in BDAG 710 s.v. ὄναρ.