Matthew 6:22-23

6:22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, ¹  your whole body will be full of light. 6:23 But if your eye is diseased, ²  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 6:2

6:2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, ³  do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues ⁴  and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, ⁵  they have their reward.

Matthew 2:21

2:21 So ⁶  he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

Matthew 2:2

2:2 saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose ⁷  and have come to worship him.”

Matthew 1:9

1:9 Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

Revelation 3:17-18

3:17 Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, ⁸  and need nothing,” but ⁹  do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, ¹⁰  poor, blind, and naked, 3:18 take my advice ¹¹  and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me ¹²  white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness ¹³  will not be exposed, and buy eye salve ¹⁴  to put on your eyes so you can see!

¹ tn Or “sound” (so L&N 23.132 and most scholars). A few scholars take this word to mean something like “generous” here (L&N 57.107). partly due to the immediate context concerning money, in which case the “eye” is a metonymy for the entire person (“if you are generous”).

² tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149).

³ tn Grk “give alms,” but this term is not in common use today. The giving of alms was highly regarded in the ancient world (Deut 15:7-11).

⁴ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

⁵ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s instructions.

⁵ tn Or “in its rising,” referring to the astrological significance of a star in a particular portion of the sky. The term used for the “East” in v. 1 is ἀνατολαί (anatolai, a plural form that is used typically of the rising of the sun), while in vv. 2 and 9 the singular ἀνατολή (anatolh) is used. The singular is typically used of the rising of a star and as such should not normally be translated “in the east” (cf. BDAG 74 s.v. 1: “because of the sg. and the article in contrast to ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, vs. 1, [it is] prob. not a geograph. expr. like the latter, but rather astronomical…likew. vs. 9”).

⁶ tn Grk “and have become rich.” The semantic domains of the two terms for wealth here, πλούσιος (plousios, adjective) and πλουτέω (ploutew, verb) overlap considerably, but are given slightly different English translations for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

⁸ tn All the terms in this series are preceded by καί (kai) in the Greek text, but contemporary English generally uses connectives only between the last two items in such a series.

⁷ tn Grk “I counsel you to buy.”

⁸ tn Grk “rich, and.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation, repeating the words “Buy from me” to make the connection clear for the English reader.

⁹ tn Grk “the shame of the nakedness of you,” which has been translated as an attributed genitive like καινότητι ζωῆς (kainothti zwh") in Rom 6:4 (ExSyn 89-90).

¹⁰ sn The city of Laodicea had a famous medical school and exported a powder (called a “Phrygian powder”) that was widely used as an eye salve. It was applied to the eyes in the form of a paste the consistency of dough (the Greek term for the salve here, κολλούριον, kollourion [Latin collyrium], is a diminutive form of the word for a long roll of bread).