Matthew 15:10

True Defilement

15:10 Then he called the crowd to him and said, ¹  “Listen and understand.

Matthew 18:2

18:2 He called a child, had him stand among them,

Matthew 22:45

22:45 If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” ² 

Matthew 23:7

23:7 and elaborate greetings ³  in the marketplaces, and to have people call them ‘Rabbi.’

Matthew 23:10

23:10 Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one teacher, the Christ. ⁴ 

Matthew 27:8

27:8 For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day.

¹ tn Grk “And calling the crowd, he said to them.” The participle προσκαλεσάμενος (proskalesamenos) has been translated as attendant circumstance. The emphasis here is upon Jesus’ speaking to the crowd.

² tn Grk “how is he his son?”

³ sn There is later Jewish material in the Talmud that spells out such greetings in detail. See H. Windisch, TDNT 1:498.

⁴ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”