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Matthew 4:6

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4:6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you 1  and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” 2 

Matthew 7:6

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7:6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. 3 

Matthew 10:14

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10:14 And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your message, shake the dust off 4  your feet as you leave that house or that town.

Matthew 15:30

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15:30 Then 5  large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They 6  laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Matthew 22:13

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22:13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
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[4:6]  1 sn A quotation from Ps 91:11. This was not so much an incorrect citation as a use in a wrong context (a misapplication of the passage).

[4:6]  2 sn A quotation from Ps 91:12.

[7:6]  3 tn Or “otherwise the latter will trample them under their feet and the former will turn around and tear you to pieces.” This verse is sometimes understood as a chiasm of the pattern a-b-b-a, in which the first and last clauses belong together (“dogs…turn around and tear you to pieces”) and the second and third clauses belong together (“pigs…trample them under their feet”).

[10:14]  5 sn To shake the dust off represented shaking off the uncleanness from one’s feet; see Luke 10:11; Acts 13:51; 18:6. It was a sign of rejection.

[15:30]  7 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then.”

[15:30]  8 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.



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