6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate 2 the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise 3 the other. You cannot serve God and money. 4
1 sn Aspects of Jesus’ ministry may have led John to question whether Jesus was the promised stronger and greater one who is to come that he had preached about in Matt 3:1-12.
2 sn The contrast between hate and love here is rhetorical. The point is that one will choose the favorite if a choice has to be made.
3 tn Or “and treat [the other] with contempt.”
4 tn Grk “God and mammon.”