Matthew 2:16

2:16 When Herod ¹  saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men ²  to kill all the children in Bethlehem ³  and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

Matthew 5:29

5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. ⁴ 

Matthew 18:8

18:8 If ⁵  your hand or your foot causes you to sin, ⁶  cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have ⁷  two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

¹ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Note the fulfillment of the prophecy given by the angel in 2:13.

² tn Or “soldiers.”

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

⁴ sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22.

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

⁸ sn In Greek there is a wordplay that is difficult to reproduce in English here. The verb translated “causes…to sin” (σκανδαλίζω, skandalizw) comes from the same root as the word translated “stumbling blocks” (σκάνδαλον, skandalon) in the previous verse.

⁹ tn Grk “than having.”