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Matthew 23:34-35

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23:34 “For this reason I 1  am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, 2  some of whom you will kill and crucify, 3  and some you will flog 4  in your synagogues 5  and pursue from town to town, 23:35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, 6  whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 21:35-36

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21:35 But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, 7  killed another, and stoned another. 21:36 Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

Matthew 21:2

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21:2 telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. 8  Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

Matthew 1:15

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1:15 Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

Jeremiah 2:30

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2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.

They did not respond to such correction.

You slaughtered your prophets

like a voracious lion.” 9 

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[23:34]  1 tn Grk “behold I am sending.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[23:34]  2 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:34]  3 sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.

[23:34]  4 tn BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1.a states, “of flogging as a punishment decreed by the synagogue (Dt 25:2f; s. the Mishna Tractate Sanhedrin-Makkoth, edited w. notes by SKrauss ’33) w. acc. of pers. Mt 10:17; 23:34.”

[23:34]  5 sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[23:35]  6 sn Spelling of this name (Βαραχίου, Baraciou) varies among the English versions: “Barachiah” (RSV, NRSV); “Berechiah” (NASB); “Berachiah” (NIV).

[21:35]  7 sn The image of the tenants mistreating the owner’s slaves pictures the nation’s rejection of the prophets and their message.

[21:2]  8 tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

[2:30]  9 tn Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.



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