Matthew 12:7

12:7 If ¹  you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ ²  you would not have condemned the innocent.

Matthew 12:35

12:35 The good person ³  brings good things out of his ⁴  good treasury, ⁵  and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

Matthew 13:14

13:14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:

‘You will listen carefully ⁶  yet will never understand,

you will look closely ⁷  yet will never comprehend.

Matthew 19:1

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19:1 Now when ⁸  Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. ⁹ 

Matthew 26:75

26:75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. ¹⁰ 

[12:7]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[12:7]  ² sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 9:13).

[12:35]  ³ tn The Greek text reads here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos). The term is generic referring to any person.

[12:35]  ⁴ tn Grk “the”; the Greek article has been translated here and in the following clause (“his evil treasury”) as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

[12:35]  ⁵ sn The treasury here is a metaphorical reference to a person’s heart (cf. BDAG 456 s.v. θησαυρός 1.b and the parallel passage in Luke 6:45).

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Grk “with hearing,” a cognate dative that intensifies the action of the main verb “you will listen” (ExSyn 168-69).

[13:14]  ⁶ tn Grk “look by looking.” The participle is redundant, functioning to intensify the force of the main verb.

[19:1]  ⁷ tn Grk “it happened when.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[19:1]  ⁸ tn “River” is not in the Greek text but is supplied for clarity. The region referred to here is sometimes known as Transjordan (i.e., “across the Jordan”).

[26:75]  ⁹ sn When Peter went out and wept bitterly it shows he really did not want to fail here and was deeply grieved that he had.