Matthew 2:9

2:9 After listening to the king they left, and once again ¹  the star they saw when it rose ²  led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

Matthew 2:22

2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus ³  was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, ⁴  he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ⁵  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ⁶  a wise man ⁷  who built his house on rock.

Matthew 7:26

7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matthew 10:14

10:14 And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off ⁸  your feet as you leave that house or that town.

Matthew 12:42

12:42 The queen of the South ⁹  will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, ¹⁰  something greater than Solomon is here!

Matthew 13:14

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

‘You will listen carefully ¹¹  yet will never understand,

you will look closely ¹²  yet will never comprehend.

Matthew 13:19

13:19 When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one ¹³  comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; ¹⁴  this is the seed sown along the path.

Matthew 13:22-23

13:22 The ¹⁵  seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth ¹⁶  choke the word, ¹⁷  so it produces nothing. 13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ¹⁸ 

Matthew 17:5

17:5 While he was still speaking, a ¹⁹  bright cloud ²⁰  overshadowed ²¹  them, and a voice from the cloud said, ²²  “This is my one dear Son, ²³  in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!” ²⁴ 

Matthew 21:16

21:16 and said to him, “Do you hear what they are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself’?” ²⁵ 

Matthew 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ²⁶  who planted a vineyard. ²⁷  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ²⁸  he leased it to tenant farmers ²⁹  and went on a journey.

[2:9]  ¹ tn Grk “and behold the star.”

[2:9]  ² tn See the note on the word “rose” in 2:2.

[2:22]  ³ sn Archelaus took after his father Herod the Great in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness, so Joseph was afraid to go there. After further direction in a dream, he went instead to Galilee.

[2:22]  ⁴ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.

[7:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ⁶ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ⁷ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[10:14]  ⁷ sn To shake the dust off represented shaking off the uncleanness from one’s feet; see Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 18:6. It was a sign of rejection.

[12:42]  ⁹ sn On the queen of the South see 1 Kgs 10:1-3 and 2 Chr 9:1-12, as well as Josephus, Ant. 8.6.5-6 (8.165-175). The South most likely refers to modern southwest Arabia, possibly the eastern part of modern Yemen, although there is an ancient tradition reflected in Josephus which identifies this geo-political entity as Ethiopia.

[12:42]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “behold.”

[13:14]  ¹¹ tn Grk “with hearing,” a cognate dative that intensifies the action of the main verb “you will listen” (ExSyn 168-69).

[13:14]  ¹² tn Grk “look by looking.” The participle is redundant, functioning to intensify the force of the main verb.

[13:19]  ¹³ sn Interestingly, the synoptic parallels each use a different word for Satan here: Mark 4:15 has “Satan,” while Luke 8:12 has “the devil.” This illustrates the fluidity of the gospel tradition in often using synonyms at the same point of the parallel tradition.

[13:19]  ¹⁴ sn The word of Jesus has the potential to save if it germinates in a person’s heart, something the devil is very much against.

[13:22]  ¹⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:22]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “the deceitfulness of riches.” Cf. BDAG 99 s.v. ἀπάτη 1, “the seduction which comes from wealth.”

[13:22]  ¹⁷ sn That is, their concern for spiritual things is crowded out by material things.

[13:23]  ¹⁷ tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).

[17:5]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “behold, a.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated here or in the following clause because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[17:5]  ²⁰ sn This cloud is the cloud of God’s presence and the voice is his as well.

[17:5]  ²¹ tn Or “surrounded.”

[17:5]  ²² tn Grk “behold, a voice from the cloud, saying.” This is an incomplete sentence in Greek which portrays intensity and emotion. The participle λέγουσα (legousa) was translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style.

[17:5]  ²³ tn Grk “my beloved Son,” or “my Son, the beloved [one].” The force of ἀγαπητός (agaphtos) is often “pertaining to one who is the only one of his or her class, but at the same time is particularly loved and cherished” (L&N 58.53; cf. also BDAG 7 s.v. 1).

[17:5]  ²⁴ sn The expression listen to him comes from Deut 18:15 and makes two points: 1) Jesus is a prophet like Moses, a leader-prophet, and 2) they have much yet to learn from him.

[21:16]  ²¹ sn A quotation from Ps 8:2.

[21:33]  ²³ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ²⁴ 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]  ²⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ²⁶ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.