Matthew 11:26

11:26 Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. ¹ 

Matthew 10:32-33

10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges ²  me before people, I will acknowledge ³  before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Matthew 26:70

26:70 But he denied it in front of them all: ⁴  “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

Matthew 18:14

18:14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

Matthew 5:24

5:24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

Matthew 17:2

17:2 And he was transfigured before them. ⁵  His ⁶  face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

Matthew 25:32

25:32 All ⁷  the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Matthew 5:16

5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:1-2

Pure-hearted Giving

6:1 “Be ⁸  careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. ⁹  Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven. 6:2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, ¹⁰  do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues ¹¹  and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, ¹²  they have their reward.

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. ¹³ 

Matthew 11:10

11:10 This is the one about whom it is written:

‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, ¹⁴ 

who will prepare your way before you.’ ¹⁵ 

Matthew 23:13

23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law ¹⁶  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! ¹⁷  You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! ¹⁸  For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

Matthew 27:11

Jesus and Pilate

27:11 Then ¹⁹  Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, ²⁰  “Are you the king ²¹  of the Jews?” Jesus ²²  said, “You say so.” ²³ 

Matthew 27:29

27:29 and after braiding ²⁴  a crown of thorns, ²⁵  they put it on his head. They ²⁶  put a staff ²⁷  in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: ²⁸  “Hail, king of the Jews!” ²⁹ 

[11:26]  ¹ tn Grk “for (to do) thus was well-pleasing before you,” BDAG 325 s.v. ἔμπροσθεν 1.b.δ; speaking of something taking place “before” God is a reverential way of avoiding direct connection of the action to him.

[10:32]  ² tn Or “confesses.”

[10:32]  ³ tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”

[26:70]  ³ tn Grk “he denied it…saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[17:2]  ⁴ sn In 1st century Judaism and in the NT, there was the belief that the righteous get new, glorified bodies in order to enter heaven (1 Cor 15:42-49; 2 Cor 5:1-10). This transformation means the righteous will share the glory of God. One recalls the way Moses shared the Lord’s glory after his visit to the mountain in Exod 34. So the disciples saw Jesus transfigured, and they were getting a sneak preview of the great glory that Jesus would have (only his glory is more inherent to him as one who shares in the rule of the kingdom).

[17:2]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[25:32]  ⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[6:1]  ⁶ tc ‡ Several mss (א L Z Θ Ë¹ 33 892 1241 1424 al) have δέ (de, “but, now”) at the beginning of this verse; the reading without δέ is supported by B D W 0250 ˹³ Ï lat. A decision is difficult, but apparently the conjunction was added by later scribes to indicate a transition in the thought-flow of the Sermon on the Mount. NA²⁷ has δέ in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Grk “before people in order to be seen by them.”

[6:2]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[6:2]  ⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[7:6]  ⁸ 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”).

[11:10]  ⁹ tn Grk “before your face” (an idiom).

[11:10]  ¹⁰ sn The quotation is primarily from Mal 3:1 with pronouns from Exod 23:20. Here is the forerunner who points the way to the arrival of God’s salvation. His job is to prepare and guide the people, as the cloud did for Israel in the desert.

[23:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:13]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Woe to you…because you…” The causal particle ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated here for rhetorical effect (and so throughout this chapter).

[23:13]  ¹² tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”

[27:11]  ¹¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[27:11]  ¹² tn Grk “asked him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[27:11]  ¹³ sn “Are you the king of the Jews?” Pilate was interested in this charge because of its political implications of sedition against Rome.

[27:11]  ¹⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[27:11]  ¹⁵ sn The reply “You say so” is somewhat enigmatic, like Jesus’ earlier reply to the Jewish leadership in 26:64.

[27:29]  ¹² tn Or “weaving.”

[27:29]  ¹³ sn The crown may have been made from palm spines or some other thorny plant common in Israel. In placing the crown of thorns on his head, the soldiers were unwittingly symbolizing God’s curse on humanity (cf. Gen 3:18) being placed on Jesus. Their purpose would have been to mock Jesus’ claim to be a king; the crown of thorns would have represented the “radiant corona” portrayed on the heads of rulers on coins and other artifacts in the 1st century.

[27:29]  ¹⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[27:29]  ¹⁵ tn Or “a reed.” The Greek term can mean either “staff” or “reed.” See BDAG 502 s.v. κάλαμος 2.

[27:29]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “they mocked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated.

[27:29]  ¹⁷ tn Or “Long live the King of the Jews!”