Matthew 2:11

2:11 As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down ¹  and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, ²  and myrrh. ³ 

Matthew 9:9

The Call of Matthew; Eating with Sinners

9:9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. ⁴  “Follow me,” he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

Matthew 9:28

9:28 When ⁵  he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus ⁶  said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 12:32

12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. ⁷  But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, ⁸  either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ⁹  who planted a vineyard. ¹⁰  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ¹¹  he leased it to tenant farmers ¹²  and went on a journey.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Grk “they fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[2:11]  ² sn Frankincense refers to the aromatic resin of certain trees, used as a sweet-smelling incense (L&N 6.212).

[2:11]  ³ sn Myrrh consisted of the aromatic resin of certain shrubs (L&N 6.208). It was used in preparing a corpse for burial.

[9:9]  ⁴ tn While “tax office” is sometimes given as a translation for τελώνιον (telwnion, so L&N 57.183), this could give the modern reader a false impression of an indoor office with all its associated furnishings.

[9:28]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[9:28]  ⁸ tn Grk “to him, and Jesus.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, but a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[12:32]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”

[12:32]  ¹¹ tn Grk “it will not be forgiven him.”

[21:33]  ¹³ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ¹⁴ sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

[21:33]  ¹⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ¹⁶ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.