Matthew 3:12

3:12 His winnowing fork ¹  is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, ²  but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” ³ 

Matthew 4:24

4:24 So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People ⁴  brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, ⁵  paralytics, and those possessed by demons, ⁶  and he healed them.

Matthew 9:15

9:15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests ⁷  cannot mourn while the bridegroom ⁸  is with them, can they? But the days ⁹  are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, ¹⁰  and then they will fast.

Matthew 9:28

9:28 When ¹¹  he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus ¹²  said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”

Matthew 10:25

10:25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!

Matthew 14:2

14:2 and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead! And because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Matthew 16:27

16:27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. ¹³ 

Matthew 17:5

17:5 While he was still speaking, a ¹⁴  bright cloud ¹⁵  overshadowed ¹⁶  them, and a voice from the cloud said, ¹⁷  “This is my one dear Son, ¹⁸  in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!” ¹⁹ 

Matthew 17:12

17:12 And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In ²⁰  the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

Matthew 18:28

18:28 After ²¹  he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. ²²  So ²³  he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, ²⁴  saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ ²⁵ 

Matthew 21:32-33

21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although ²⁶  you saw this, you did not later change your minds ²⁷  and believe him.

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ²⁸  who planted a vineyard. ²⁹  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ³⁰  he leased it to tenant farmers ³¹  and went on a journey.

Matthew 22:24

22:24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children ³²  for his brother.’ ³³ 

Matthew 24:31

24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven ³⁴  to the other.

[3:12]  ¹ sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.

[3:12]  ² tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).

[3:12]  ³ sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.

[4:24]  ⁴ tn Grk “And they”; “they” is probably an indefinite plural, referring to people in general rather than to the Syrians (cf. v. 25).

[4:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “those who were moonstruck,” possibly meaning “lunatic” (so NAB), although now the term is generally regarded as referring to some sort of seizure disorder such as epilepsy (L&N 23.169; BDAG 919 s.v. σεληνιάζομαι).

[4:24]  ⁶ tn The translation has adopted a different phrase order here than that in the Greek text. The Greek text reads, “People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those possessed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics.” Even though it is obvious that four separate groups of people are in view here, following the Greek word order could lead to the misconception that certain people were possessed by epileptics and paralytics. The word order adopted in the translation avoids this problem.

[9:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

[9:15]  ⁸ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

[9:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “days.”

[9:15]  ¹⁰ sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 16:13ff.

[9:28]  ¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[9:28]  ¹¹ 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.

[16:27]  ¹³ sn An allusion to Pss 28:4; 62:12; cf. Prov 24:12.

[17:5]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ sn This cloud is the cloud of God’s presence and the voice is his as well.

[17:5]  ¹⁸ tn Or “surrounded.”

[17:5]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ 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.

[17:12]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[18:28]  ²² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[18:28]  ²³ tn Grk “one hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be about three month’s pay.

[18:28]  ²⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so.” A new sentence was started at this point in the translation in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[18:28]  ²⁵ tn Grk “and he grabbed him and started choking him.”

[18:28]  ²⁶ tn The word “me” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[21:32]  ²⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[21:32]  ²⁶ sn The word translated change your minds is the same verb used in v. 29 (there translated had a change of heart). Jesus is making an obvious comparison here, in which the religious leaders are viewed as the disobedient son.

[21:33]  ²⁸ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ²⁹ 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]  ³⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ³¹ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.

[22:24]  ³¹ tn Grk “and raise up seed,” an idiom for fathering children (L&N 23.59).

[22:24]  ³² sn A quotation from Deut 25:5. This practice is called levirate marriage (see also Ruth 4:1-12; Mishnah, m. Yevamot; Josephus, Ant. 4.8.23 [4.254-256]). The levirate law is described in Deut 25:5-10. The brother of a man who died without a son had an obligation to marry his brother’s widow. This served several purposes: It provided for the widow in a society where a widow with no children to care for her would be reduced to begging, and it preserved the name of the deceased, who would be regarded as the legal father of the first son produced from that marriage.

[24:31]  ³⁴ tn Or “of the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.