Matthew 10:21

10:21 “Brother ¹  will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ²  parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 10:29

10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? ³  Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ⁴ 

Matthew 13:43

13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ⁵  The one who has ears had better listen! ⁶ 

Matthew 16:27

16:27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ⁷ 

[10:21]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:21]  ² tn Or “will rebel against.”

[10:29]  ³ sn The penny refers to an assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest items sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.

[10:29]  ⁴ tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”

[13:43]  ⁵ sn An allusion to Dan 12:3.

[13:43]  ⁶ tn The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let him hear,” which sounds more like a permissive than an imperative to the modern English reader. This was Jesus’ common expression to listen and heed carefully (cf. Matt 11:15, 13:9; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 8:8, 14:35).

[16:27]  ⁷ sn An allusion to Pss 28:4; 62:12; cf. Prov 24:12.