Matthew 5:47
Context5:47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?
Matthew 18:35
Context18:35 So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your 1 brother 2 from your heart.”
Matthew 23:8
Context23:8 But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.


[18:35] 1 tn Grk “his.” The pronoun has been translated to follow English idiom (the last pronoun of the verse [“from your heart”] is second person plural in the original).
[18:35] 2 tn Here the term “brother” means “fellow believer” or “fellow Christian” (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 2.a), whether male or female. Concerning the familial connotations, see also the note on the first occurrence of this term in v. 15.