6:1 “Be 3 careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. 4 Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
‘You will listen carefully 10 yet will never understand,
you will look closely 11 yet will never comprehend.
1 tn Or “that of the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
2 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
3 tc ‡ Several
4 tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”
5 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
6 sn Judaism had a similar exhortation in 4 Macc 13:14-15.
7 sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
7 sn This verse has been noted for its conceptual similarity to teaching in John’s Gospel (10:15; 17:2). The authority of the Son and the Father are totally intertwined.
8 tn Or “wishes”; or “intends”; or “plans” (cf. BDAG 182 s.v. βούλομαι 2.b). Here it is the Son who has sovereignty.
9 tn Grk “with hearing,” a cognate dative that intensifies the action of the main verb “you will listen” (ExSyn 168-69).
10 tn Grk “look by looking.” The participle is redundant, functioning to intensify the force of the main verb.