Matthew 7:21

Judgment of Pretenders

7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’¹ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 10:36

10:36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.²

Matthew 13:18

13:18 “So listen to the parable of the sower:

Matthew 13:38

13:38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people³ of the kingdom. The weeds are the people⁴ of the evil one,

Matthew 15:35

15:35 After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Matthew 21:12

Cleansing the Temple

21:12 Then⁵ Jesus entered the temple area⁶ and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,⁷ and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Matthew 25:17

25:17 In the same way, the one who had two gained two more.

¹sn The double use of the vocative is normally used in situations of high emotion or emphasis. Even an emphatic confession without action means little.

²tn Matt 10:35-36 are an allusion to Mic 7:6.

³tn Grk “the sons of the kingdom.” This idiom refers to people who should properly be, or were traditionally regarded as, a part of God’s kingdom. L&N 11.13 translates the phrase: “people of God’s kingdom, God’s people.”

⁴tn Grk “the sons of the evil one.” See the preceding note on the phrase “people of the kingdom” earlier in this verse, which is the opposite of this phrase. See also L&N 9.4; 11.13; 11.14.

⁴tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

⁵tn Grk “the temple.”

⁶tn Grk “the temple.”