Matthew 12:37

12:37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Matthew 22:15

Paying Taxes to Caesar

22:15 Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

Matthew 24:35

24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.


sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

tn Grk “trap him in word.”

sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.