Matthew 13:40-43

13:40 As ¹  the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. ²  13:42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, ³  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13:43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ⁴  The one who has ears had better listen! ⁵ 

[13:40]  ¹ tn Grk “Therefore as.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[13:41]  ² tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”

[13:42]  ³ sn A quotation from Dan 3:6.

[13:43]  ⁴ sn An allusion to Dan 12:3.

[13:43]  ⁵ 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).