Matthew 10:1

Sending Out the Twelve Apostles

10:1 Jesus 1  called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits 2  so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness. 3 

Matthew 19:13

Jesus and Little Children

19:13 Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. 4  But the disciples scolded those who brought them. 5 

Matthew 20:31

20:31 The 6  crowd scolded 7  them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Lord, have mercy on us, 8  Son of David!”

Matthew 21:3

21:3 If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ 9  and he will send them at once.”

1 tn Grk “And he.”

2 sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.

3 tn Grk “and every [kind of] sickness.” Here “every” was not repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

4 tn Grk “so that he would lay his hands on them and pray.”

5 tn Grk “the disciples scolded them.” In the translation the referent has been specified as “those who brought them,” since otherwise the statement could be understood to mean that the disciples scolded the children rather than their parents who brought them.

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

7 tn Or “rebuked.” The crowd’s view was that surely Jesus would not be bothered with someone as unimportant as a blind beggar.

8 tc ‡ The majority of mss (C W Ë1 33 Ï and several versional witnesses) read κύριε (kurie, “Lord”) after ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς (elehson Jhma", “have mercy on us”). But since this is the order of words in v. 30 (though that wording is also disputed), and since the κύριε-first reading enjoys widespread and early support (א B D L Z Θ 085 0281 Ë13 892 pc lat), the latter was considered original. However, the decision was by no means easy. NA27 has κύριε after ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς here; a majority of that committee felt that since the placement of κύριε in last place was the nonliturgical order it “would have been likely to be altered in transcription to the more familiar sequence” (TCGNT 44).

9 sn The custom called angaria allowed the impressment of animals for service to a significant figure.