Matthew 5:30
Context5:30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
Matthew 6:23
Context6:23 But if your eye is diseased, 1 your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Matthew 13:33
ContextThe Parable of the Yeast
13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with 2 three measures 3 of flour until all the dough had risen.” 4
Matthew 16:26
Context16:26 For what does it benefit a person 5 if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?


[6:23] 1 tn Or “if your eye is sick” (L&N 23.149).
[13:33] 2 sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 pounds (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.
[13:33] 3 tn Grk “it was all leavened.”
[16:26] 1 tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.