Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ¹  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 6:5-6

Private Prayer

6:5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues ²  and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. 6:6 But whenever you pray, go into your room, ³  close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. ⁴ 

Matthew 13:17

13:17 For I tell you the truth, ⁵  many prophets and righteous people longed to see ⁶  what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Matthew 13:23

13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ⁷ 

Matthew 26:64-65

26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand ⁸  of the Power ⁹  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ¹⁰  26:65 Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared, ¹¹  “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now ¹²  you have heard the blasphemy!

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¹ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

² sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

³ sn The term translated room refers to the inner room of a house, normally without any windows opening outside, the most private location possible (BDAG 988 s.v. ταμεῖον 2).

⁴ tc See the tc note on “will reward you” in 6:4: The problem is the same and the ms support differs only slightly.

⁵ tn Grk “truly (ἀμήν, amhn) I say to you.”

⁶ sn This is what past prophets and righteous people had wanted very much to see, yet the fulfillment had come to the disciples. This remark is like 1 Pet 1:10-12 or Heb 1:1-2.

⁷ tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).

⁸ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

⁹ sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

¹⁰ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).

¹¹ tn Grk “the high priest tore his clothes, saying.”

¹² tn Grk “Behold now.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).