Matthew 23:12

23:12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 13:12

13:12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. ¹ 

Matthew 5:41

5:41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, ²  go with him two.

Matthew 7:24

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ³  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ⁴  a wise man ⁵  who built his house on rock.

Matthew 22:2

22:2 “The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.

Matthew 5:39

5:39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. ⁶  But whoever strikes you on the ⁷  right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

Matthew 10:32-33

10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges ⁸  me before people, I will acknowledge ⁹  before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹⁰  my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 18:4

18:4 Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 20:1

Workers in the Vineyard

20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner ¹¹  who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Matthew 2:6

2:6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

are in no way least among the rulers of Judah,

for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’” ¹² 

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 13:52

13:52 Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law ¹³  who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”

Matthew 19:29

19:29 And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much ¹⁴  and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ¹⁵  who planted a vineyard. ¹⁶  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ¹⁷  he leased it to tenant farmers ¹⁸  and went on a journey.

[13:12]  ¹ sn What he has will be taken from him. The meaning is that the one who accepts Jesus’ teaching concerning his person and the kingdom will receive a share in the kingdom now and even more in the future, but for the one who rejects Jesus’ words, the opportunity that that person presently possesses with respect to the kingdom will someday be taken away forever.

[5:41]  ¹ sn If anyone forces you to go one mile. In NT times Roman soldiers had the authority to press civilians into service to carry loads for them.

[7:24]  ¹ tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ² tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ³ 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.

[5:39]  ¹ tn The articular πονηρός (ponhro", “the evildoer”) cannot be translated simply as “evil” for then the command would be “do not resist evil.” Every instance of this construction in Matthew is most likely personified, referring either to an evildoer (13:49) or, more often, “the evil one” (as in 5:37; 6:13; 13:19, 38).

[5:39]  ² tc ‡ Many mss (B D K L Δ Θ Ë¹³ 565 579 700 1424 pm) have σου (sou) here (“your right cheek”), but many others lack the pronoun (א W ˹ 33 892 1241 pm). The pronoun was probably added by way of clarification. NA²⁷ has σου in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

[10:32]  ¹ tn Or “confesses.”

[10:32]  ² tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”

[12:50]  ¹ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

[20:1]  ¹ sn The term landowner here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[2:6]  ¹ sn A quotation from Mic 5:2.

[13:52]  ¹ tn Or “every scribe.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4. It is possible that the term translated “expert in the law” (traditionally, “scribe”) here is a self-description used by the author, Matthew, to represent his role in conveying the traditions about Jesus to his intended audience. See David E. Orton, The Understanding Scribe [JSNTSup].

[19:29]  ¹ sn Jesus reassures his disciples with a promise that (1) much benefit in this life (a hundred times as much) and (2) eternal life will be given.

[21:33]  ¹ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ² 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]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ⁴ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.