Matthew 5:12

5:12 Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

Matthew 5:18

5:18 I ¹  tell you the truth, ²  until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter ³  will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matthew 8:8

8:8 But the centurion replied, ⁴  “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Instead, just say the word and my servant will be healed.

Matthew 8:11

8:11 I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet ⁵  with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ⁶  in the kingdom of heaven,

Matthew 10:15

10:15 I tell you the truth, ⁷  it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah ⁸  on the day of judgment than for that town!

Matthew 13:11

13:11 He replied, ⁹  “You have been given ¹⁰  the opportunity to know ¹¹  the secrets ¹²  of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.

Matthew 19:8-9

19:8 Jesus ¹³  said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, ¹⁴  but from the beginning it was not this way. 19:9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:23

19:23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, ¹⁵  it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

Matthew 24:23

24:23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹⁶  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him.

Matthew 26:13

26:13 I tell you the truth, ¹⁷  wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Matthew 26:75

26:75 Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly. ¹⁸ 

[5:18]  ¹ tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[5:18]  ² tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[5:18]  ³ tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”

[8:8]  ¹ tn Grk “But answering, the centurion replied.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant and has not been translated.

[8:11]  ¹ tn Grk “and recline at table,” as 1st century middle eastern meals were not eaten while sitting at a table, but while reclining on one’s side on the floor with the head closest to the low table and the feet farthest away. The word “banquet” has been supplied to clarify for the modern reader the festive nature of the imagery. The banquet imagery is a way to describe the fellowship and celebration of being among the people of God at the end.

[8:11]  ² tn Grk “and Isaac and Jacob,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.

[10:15]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[10:15]  ² sn The allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah, the most wicked of OT cities from Gen 19:1-29, shows that to reject the current message is even more serious than the worst sins of the old era and will result in more severe punishment.

[13:11]  ¹ tn Grk “And answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:11]  ² tn This is an example of a “divine passive,” with God understood to be the source of the revelation (see ExSyn 437-38).

[13:11]  ³ tn Grk “to you it has been given to know.” The dative pronoun occurs first, in emphatic position in the Greek text, although this position is awkward in contemporary English.

[13:11]  ⁴ tn Grk “the mysteries.”

[19:8]  ¹ tc A few important mss (א Φ pc) have the name “Jesus” here, but it is probably not original. Nevertheless, this translation routinely specifies the referents of pronouns to improve clarity, so that has been done here.

[19:8]  ² tn Grk “heart” (a collective singular).

[19:23]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:23]  ¹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[26:13]  ¹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[26:75]  ¹ sn When Peter went out and wept bitterly it shows he really did not want to fail here and was deeply grieved that he had.