Matthew 13:41-43

13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. ¹  13:42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, ²  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ³  The one who has ears had better listen! ⁴ 

¹ tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”

² sn A quotation from Dan 3:6.

³ sn An allusion to Dan 12:3.

⁴ 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).