Matthew 1:18

The Birth of Jesus Christ

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ¹  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 8:10

8:10 When ²  Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, ³  I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!

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 18:28

18:28 After ⁴  he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. ⁵  So ⁶  he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, ⁷  saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ ⁸ 

Matthew 20:6

20:6 And about five o’clock that afternoon ⁹  he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

Matthew 21:19

21:19 After noticing a fig tree ¹⁰  by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Never again will there be fruit from you!” And the fig tree withered at once.

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¹ tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).

² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁵ 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.

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn Grk “and he grabbed him and started choking him.”

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Grk “about the eleventh hour.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “one fig tree.”

sn The fig tree is a variation on the picture of a vine as representing the nation; see Isa 5:1-7.