Matthew 5:11

5:11 “Blessed are you when people ¹  insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely ²  on account of me.

Matthew 10:1

Sending Out the Twelve Apostles

10:1 Jesus ³  called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits ⁴  so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness. ⁵ 

Matthew 4:23

Jesus’ Healing Ministry

4:23 Jesus ⁶  went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, ⁷  preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

Matthew 13:47

13:47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea that caught all kinds of fish.

Matthew 9:35

Workers for the Harvest

9:35 Then Jesus went throughout all the towns ⁸  and villages, teaching in their synagogues, ⁹  preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness. ¹⁰ 

Matthew 23:27

23:27 “Woe to you, experts in the law ¹¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. ¹² 

[5:11]  ¹ tn Grk “when they insult you.” The third person pronoun (here implied in the verb ὀνειδίσωσιν [ojneidiswsin]) has no specific referent, but refers to people in general.

[5:11]  ² tc Although ψευδόμενοι (yeudomenoi, “bearing witness falsely”) could be a motivated reading, clarifying that the disciples are unjustly persecuted, its lack in only D it sy^s Tert does not help its case. Since the Western text is known for numerous free alterations, without corroborative evidence the shorter reading must be judged as secondary.

[10:1]  ³ tn Grk “And he.”

[10:1]  ⁴ sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.

[10:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[4:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “And he.”

[4:23]  ⁶ sn Synagogues were places for Jewish prayer and worship, with recognized leadership (cf. Luke 8:41). Though the origin of the synagogue is not entirely clear, it seems to have arisen in the postexilic community during the intertestamental period. A town could establish a synagogue if there were at least ten men. In normative Judaism of the NT period, the OT scripture was read and discussed in the synagogue by the men who were present (see the Mishnah, m. Megillah 3-4; m. Berakhot 2).

[9:35]  ⁷ tn Or “cities.”

[9:35]  ⁸ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[9:35]  ⁹ tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[23:27]  ⁹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:27]  ¹⁰ sn This was an idiom for hypocrisy – just as the wall was painted on the outside but something different on the inside, so this person was not what he appeared or pretended to be (for discussion of a similar metaphor, see L&N 88.234; BDAG 1010 s.v. τοῖχος). See Deut 28:22; Ezek 13:10-16; Acts 23:3.