Discovery BoxMatthew 18:16-18 
Context18:16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. 1 18:17 If 2 he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If 3 he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like 4 a Gentile 5 or a tax collector. 6
18:18 “I tell you the truth, 7 whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
Matthew 18:20
Context18:20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them.”
1 sn A quotation from Deut 19:15.
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
4 tn Grk “let him be to you as.”
5 tn Or “a pagan.”
6 sn To treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector means not to associate with such a person. See the note on tax collectors in 5:46.
7 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
