Matthew 7:6

7:6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. ¹ 

Matthew 8:32

8:32 And he said, ²  “Go!” So ³  they came out and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned in the water.

Matthew 9:18

Restoration and Healing

9:18 As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”

Matthew 17:20

17:20 He told them, “It was because of your little faith. I tell you the truth, ⁴  if you have faith the size of ⁵  a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; nothing ⁶  will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 25:24

25:24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

Matthew 26:26

The Lord’s Supper

26:26 While ⁷  they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to his disciples, and said, “Take, eat, this is my body.”

¹ tn Or “otherwise the latter will trample them under their feet and the former will turn around and tear you to pieces.” This verse is sometimes understood as a chiasm of the pattern a-b-b-a, in which the first and last clauses belong together (“dogs…turn around and tear you to pieces”) and the second and third clauses belong together (“pigs…trample them under their feet”).

² tn Grk “And he said to them.”

³ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate a conclusion and transition in the narrative.

³ tn Grk “For truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Grk “faith as,” “faith like.”

⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.