Matthew 22:37

22:37 Jesus ¹  said to him, “‘Love ²  the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³ 

Matthew 9:31

9:31 But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region. ⁴ 

Matthew 24:14

24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, ⁵  and then the end will come.

Matthew 4:23

Jesus’ Healing Ministry

4:23 Jesus ⁶  went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ⁷  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

[22:37]  ¹ tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[22:37]  ² tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

[22:37]  ³ sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The threefold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

[9:31]  ⁴ tn For the translation of τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην (thn ghn ekeinhn) as “that region,” see L&N 1.79.

[24:14]  ⁷ tn Or “all the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “nations” or “Gentiles”).

[4:23]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “And he.”

[4:23]  ¹¹ sn Synagogues were places for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (cf. Luke 8:41). Though the origin of the synagogue is not entirely clear, it seems to have arisen in the postexilic community during the intertestamental period. A town could establish a synagogue if there were at least ten men. In normative Judaism of the NT period, the OT scripture was read and discussed in the synagogue by the men who were present (see the Mishnah, m. Megillah 3-4; m. Berakhot 2).