Matthew 12:50
12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is 1 my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 15:4
15:4 For God said, 2 ‘Honor your father and mother’ 3 and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ 4
Matthew 19:9
19:9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
Matthew 20:26
20:26 It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
Matthew 23:22
23:22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.
1 tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.
2 tc Most mss (א*,2 C L W 0106 33 Ï) have an expanded introduction here; instead of “For God said,” they read “For God commanded, saying” (ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ἐνετείλατο λέγων, Jo gar qeo" eneteilato legwn). But such expansions are generally motivated readings; in this case, most likely it was due to the wording of the previous verse (“the commandment of God”) that caused early scribes to add to the text. Although it is possible that other witnesses reduced the text to the simple εἶπεν (eipen, “[God] said”) because of perceived redundancy with the statement in v. 3, such is unlikely in light of the great variety and age of these authorities (א1 B D Θ 073 Ë1,13 579 700 892 pc lat co, as well as other versions and fathers).
3 sn A quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16.
4 sn A quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9.