Matthew 6:16

Proper Fasting

6:16 “When ¹  you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive ²  so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, ³  they have their reward.

Matthew 11:21

11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! ⁴  Woe to you, Bethsaida! If ⁵  the miracles ⁶  done in you had been done in Tyre ⁷  and Sidon, ⁸  they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 18:28

18:28 After ⁹  he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. ¹⁰  So ¹¹  he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, ¹²  saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ ¹³ 

Matthew 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ¹⁴  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ¹⁵  and when you get one, ¹⁶  you make him twice as much a child of hell ¹⁷  as yourselves!

[6:16]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[6:16]  ² tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”

[6:16]  ³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[11:21]  ⁴ sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after a.d. 30.

[11:21]  ⁵ tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.

[11:21]  ⁶ tn Or “powerful deeds.”

[11:21]  ⁷ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:21]  ⁸ sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”

[18:28]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[18:28]  ⁸ tn Grk “one hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be about three month’s pay.

[18:28]  ⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so.” A new sentence was started at this point in the translation in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[18:28]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and he grabbed him and started choking him.”

[18:28]  ¹¹ tn The word “me” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[23:15]  ¹⁰ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ¹² tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”