Matthew 5:18

5:18 I¹ tell you the truth,² until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter³ will pass from the law until everything takes place.

Matthew 5:29-30

5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.⁴ 5:30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

Matthew 11:7

11:7 While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness⁵ to see? A reed shaken by the wind?⁶

Matthew 14:13

The Feeding of the Five Thousand

14:13 Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it,⁷ they followed him on foot from the towns.⁸

Matthew 14:15

14:15 When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, “This is an isolated place⁹ and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Matthew 16:4

16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then¹⁰ he left them and went away.

Matthew 18:9

18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have¹¹ two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.¹²

Matthew 21:2

21:2 telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you.¹³ Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

Matthew 26:31

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:

‘I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’¹⁴

Matthew 27:60

27:60 and placed it¹⁵ in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock.¹⁶ Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance¹⁷ of the tomb and went away.

¹tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

²tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

³tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”

sn The smallest letter refers to the smallest Hebrew letter (yod) and the stroke of a letter to a serif (a hook or projection on a Hebrew letter).

⁴sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22.

⁵tn Or “desert.”

⁶tn There is a debate as to whether one should read this figuratively (“to see someone who is easily blown over?”) or literally (Grk “to see the wilderness vegetation?… No, to see a prophet”). Either view makes good sense, but the following examples suggest the question should be read literally and understood to point to the fact that a prophet drew them to the desert.

⁷tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

⁸tn Or “cities.”

⁹tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).

¹⁰tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

¹¹tn Grk “than having.”

¹²tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”

sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.

¹³tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).

¹⁴sn A quotation from Zech 13:7.

¹⁵tc ‡ αὐτό (auto, “it”) is found after ἔθηκεν (eqhken, “placed”) in the majority of witnesses, including many important ones, though it seems to be motivated by a need for clarification and cannot therefore easily explain the rise of the shorter reading (which is read by א L Θ Ë¹³ 33 892 pc). Regardless of which reading is original (though with a slight preference for the shorter reading), English style requires the pronoun. NA²⁷ includes αὐτό here, no doubt due to the overwhelming external attestation.

¹⁶tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).

¹⁷tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”