Matthew 2:9

2:9 After listening to the king they left, and once again ¹  the star they saw when it rose ²  led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

Matthew 6:5

Private Prayer

6:5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues ³  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matthew 6:16

Proper Fasting

6:16 “When ⁴  you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive ⁵  so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, ⁶  they have their reward.

Matthew 6:26

6:26 Look at the birds in the sky: ⁷  They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds ⁸  them. Aren’t you more valuable ⁹  than they are?

Matthew 9:15

9:15 Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests ¹⁰  cannot mourn while the bridegroom ¹¹  is with them, can they? But the days ¹²  are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, ¹³  and then they will fast.

Matthew 10:25

10:25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!

Matthew 15:31

15:31 As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

Matthew 17:12

17:12 And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In ¹⁴  the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.”

Matthew 23:4

23:4 They ¹⁵  tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

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¹ tn Grk “and behold the star.”

² tn See the note on the word “rose” in 2:2.

³ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

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

⁵ tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”

⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁷ tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).

⁸ tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”

⁹ tn Grk “of more value.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “sons of the wedding hall,” an idiom referring to wedding guests, or more specifically friends of the bridegroom present at the wedding celebration (L&N 11.7).

¹¹ sn The expression while the bridegroom is with them is an allusion to messianic times (John 3:29; Isa 54:5-6; 62:4-5; 4 Ezra 2:15, 38).

¹² tn Grk “days.”

¹³ sn The statement the bridegroom will be taken from them is a veiled allusion by Jesus to his death, which he did not make explicit until the incident at Caesarea Philippi in 16:13ff.

¹⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

¹⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.