Matthew 1:17

1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, ¹  fourteen generations.

Matthew 6:2

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

Matthew 6:23

6:23 But if your eye is diseased, ⁵  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 7:11

7:11 If you then, although you are evil, ⁶  know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts ⁷  to those who ask him!

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ⁸  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ⁹  a wise man ¹⁰  who built his house on rock.

Matthew 21:25

21:25 Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” ¹¹  They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Matthew 27:64

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ¹²  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[1:17]  ¹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[6:2]  ² 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).

[6:2]  ³ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[6:2]  ⁴ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[6:23]  ³ tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149).

[7:11]  ⁴ tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated concessively.

[7:11]  ⁵ sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.

[7:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ⁶ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ⁷ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[21:25]  ⁶ tn The plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) is used here (and in v. 26) in a generic sense, referring to both men and women (cf. NAB, NRSV, “of human origin”; TEV, “from human beings”; NLT, “merely human”).

[27:64]  ⁷ tn Grk “him.”