Matthew 7:8

7:8 For everyone who asks ¹  receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 21:44

21:44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” ² 

Matthew 22:46

22:46 No one ³  was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

Matthew 25:15

25:15 To ⁴  one he gave five talents, ⁵  to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

Matthew 25:18

25:18 But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

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¹ sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the encouragement that God does respond.

² tc A few witnesses, especially of the Western text (D 33 it sy^s Or Eus^syr), do not contain 21:44. However, the verse is found in א B C L W Z (Θ) 0102 Ë^1,13 Ï lat sy^c,p,h co and should be included as authentic.

tn Grk “on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”

sn This proverb basically means that the stone crushes, without regard to whether it falls on someone or someone falls on it. On the stone as a messianic image, see Isa 28:16 and Dan 2:44-45.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

⁵ sn A talent was equal to 6000 denarii. See the note on this term in 18:24.