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. 1
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 8:10
8:10 When 2 Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, 3 I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!
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 10:41
10:41 Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever 4 receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.
Matthew 17:25
17:25 He said, “Yes.” When Peter came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, 5 “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings collect tolls or taxes – from their sons 6 or from foreigners?”
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 have 7 two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell. 8
Matthew 21:2
21:2 telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. 9 Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.
Matthew 27:29
27:29 and after braiding 10 a crown of thorns, 11 they put it on his head. They 12 put a staff 13 in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: 14 “Hail, king of the Jews!” 15
1 sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22.
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
4 tn Grk “And whoever.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
5 tn Grk “spoke first to him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
6 sn The phrase their sons may mean “their citizens,” but the term “sons” has been retained here in order to preserve the implicit comparison between the Father and his Son, Jesus.
7 tn Grk “than having.”
8 tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”
sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
9 tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).
10 tn Or “weaving.”
11 sn The crown may have been made from palm spines or some other thorny plant common in Israel. In placing the crown of thorns on his head, the soldiers were unwittingly symbolizing God’s curse on humanity (cf. Gen 3:18) being placed on Jesus. Their purpose would have been to mock Jesus’ claim to be a king; the crown of thorns would have represented the “radiant corona” portrayed on the heads of rulers on coins and other artifacts in the 1st century.
12 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
13 tn Or “a reed.” The Greek term can mean either “staff” or “reed.” See BDAG 502 s.v. κάλαμος 2.
14 tn Grk “they mocked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated.
15 tn Or “Long live the King of the Jews!”
sn The statement Hail, King of the Jews! is a mockery patterned after the Romans’ cry of Ave, Caesar (“Hail, Caesar!”).