Matthew 4:17

4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach this message: ¹  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Matthew 8:15

8:15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then ²  she got up and began to serve them.

Matthew 9:24

9:24 he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep.” And they began making fun of him. ³ 

Matthew 16:22

16:22 So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him: ⁴  “God forbid, ⁵  Lord! This must not happen to you!”

Matthew 18:24

18:24 As ⁶  he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents ⁷  was brought to him.

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¹ tn Grk “and to say.”

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then.”

³ tn Grk “They were laughing at him.” The imperfect verb has been taken ingressively.

⁴ tn Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.

⁵ tn Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”

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

⁷ sn A talent was a huge sum of money, equal to 6,000 denarii. One denarius was the usual day’s wage for a worker. L&N 6.82 states, “a Greek monetary unit (also a unit of weight) with a value which fluctuated, depending upon the particular monetary system which prevailed at a particular period of time (a silver talent was worth approximately six thousand denarii with gold talents worth at least thirty times that much).”