Matthew 3:8

3:8 Therefore produce fruit ¹  that proves your ²  repentance,

Matthew 7:1

Do Not Judge

7:1 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged. ³ 

Matthew 7:20

7:20 So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.

Matthew 9:17

9:17 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; ⁴  otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins ⁵  and both are preserved.”

Matthew 9:26

9:26 And the news of this spread throughout that region. ⁶ 

Matthew 15:30

15:30 Then ⁷  large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They ⁸  laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

[3:8]  ¹ sn Fruit worthy of repentance refers to the deeds that indicate a change of attitude (heart) on the part of John’s hearers.

[3:8]  ² tn Grk “fruit worthy of.”

[7:1]  ³ sn The point of the statement do not judge so that you will not be judged is that the standards we apply to others God applies to us. The passive verbs in this verse look to God’s action.

[9:17]  ⁵ sn Wineskins were bags made of skin or leather, used for storing wine in NT times. As the new wine fermented and expanded, it would stretch the new wineskins. Putting new (unfermented) wine in old wineskins, which had already been stretched, would result in the bursting of the wineskins.

[9:17]  ⁶ sn The meaning of the saying new wine into new wineskins is that the presence and teaching of Jesus was something new and signaled the passing of the old. It could not be confined within the old religion of Judaism, but involved the inauguration and consummation of the kingdom of God.

[9:26]  ⁷ tn For the translation of τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην (thn ghn ekeinhn) as “that region,” see L&N 1.79.

[15:30]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then.”

[15:30]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.