Matthew 8:9

8:9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. ¹  I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes, ²  and to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my slave ³  ‘Do this’ and he does it.” ⁴ 

Matthew 11:19

11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him, ⁵  a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors ⁶  and sinners!’ ⁷  But wisdom is vindicated ⁸  by her deeds.” ⁹ 

Matthew 12:11

12:11 He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Matthew 13:31

The Parable of the Mustard Seed

13:31 He gave ¹⁰  them another parable: ¹¹  “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed ¹²  that a man took and sowed in his field.

Matthew 13:44

Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven

13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.

Matthew 19:5

19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ¹³ 

Matthew 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ¹⁴  who planted a vineyard. ¹⁵  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ¹⁶  he leased it to tenant farmers ¹⁷  and went on a journey.

Matthew 25:24

25:24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

Matthew 26:24

26:24 The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”

[8:9]  ¹ tn Grk “having soldiers under me.”

[8:9]  ² sn I say to this one ‘Go’ and he goes. The illustrations highlight the view of authority the soldier sees in the word of one who has authority. Since the centurion was a commander of a hundred soldiers, he understood what it was both to command others and to be obeyed.

[8:9]  ³ tn Though δοῦλος (doulos) is normally translated “servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. BDAG notes that “‘servant’ for ‘slave’ is largely confined to Biblical transl. and early American times… in normal usage at the present time the two words are carefully distinguished” (BDAG 260 s.v. 1). The most accurate translation is “bondservant” (sometimes found in the ASV for δοῦλος) in that it often indicates one who sells himself into slavery to another. But as this is archaic, few today understand its force.

[8:9]  ⁴ tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[11:19]  ⁵ tn Grk “Behold a man.”

[11:19]  ⁶ sn See the note on tax collectors in 5:46.

[11:19]  ⁷ sn Neither were they happy with Jesus (the Son of Man), even though he was the opposite of John and associated freely with people like tax collectors and sinners. Either way, God’s messengers were subject to complaint.

[11:19]  ⁸ tn Or “shown to be right.”

[11:19]  ⁹ tc Most witnesses (B² C D L Θ Ë¹ 33 Ï lat) have “children” (τέκνων, teknwn) here instead of “deeds” (ἔργων, ergwn), but since “children” is the reading of the parallel in Luke 7:35, scribes would be motivated to convert the less colorful “deeds” into more animate offspring of wisdom. Further, ἔργων enjoys support from א B* W (˹³) as well as early versional and patristic support.

[13:31]  ⁹ tn Grk “put before.”

[13:31]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “He set before them another parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.

[13:31]  ¹¹ sn The mustard seed was noted for its tiny size.

[19:5]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.

[21:33]  ¹⁷ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ¹⁸ sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

[21:33]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ²⁰ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.