Matthew 4:18

The Call of the Disciples

4:18 As ¹  he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen). ² 

Matthew 6:30

6:30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, ³  which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, ⁴  won’t he clothe you even more, ⁵  you people of little faith?

Matthew 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ⁶  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ⁷  the miracles ⁸  done in you had been done in Tyre ⁹  and Sidon, ¹⁰  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

[4:18]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[4:18]  ² tn The two phrases in this verse placed in parentheses are explanatory comments by the author, parenthetical in nature.

[6:30]  ³ tn Grk “grass of the field.”

[6:30]  ⁴ tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.

[6:30]  ⁵ sn The phrase even more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.

[11:21]  ⁵ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

[11:21]  ⁶ tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

[11:21]  ⁷ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

[11:21]  ⁸ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:21]  ⁹ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”