Discovery BoxMatthew 2:8 
Context2:8 He 1 sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.”
Matthew 6:16
Context6:16 “When 2 you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive 3 so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, 4 they have their reward.
Matthew 6:26
Context6:26 Look at the birds in the sky: 5 They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds 6 them. Aren’t you more valuable 7 than they are?
Matthew 11:19
Context11:19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him, 8 a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors 9 and sinners!’ 10 But wisdom is vindicated 11 by her deeds.” 12
Matthew 18:12
Context18:12 What do you think? If someone 13 owns a hundred 14 sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? 15
Matthew 20:18
Context20:18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. 16 They will condemn him to death,
Matthew 22:4
Context22:4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. 17 My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’
Matthew 23:27
Context23:27 “Woe to you, experts in the law 18 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. 19
Matthew 26:45
Context26:45 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is approaching, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 tn Here the term “disfigure” used in a number of translations was not used because it could convey to the modern reader the notion of mutilation. L&N 79.17 states, “‘to make unsightly, to disfigure, to make ugly.’ ἀφανίζουσιν γὰρ τὰ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ‘for they make their faces unsightly’ Mt 6:16.”
4 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
5 tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).
6 tn Or “God gives them food to eat.” L&N 23.6 has both “to provide food for” and “to give food to someone to eat.”
7 tn Grk “of more value.”
8 tn Grk “Behold a man.”
9 sn See the note on tax collectors in 5:46.
10 sn Neither were they happy with Jesus (the Son of Man), even though he was the opposite of John and associated freely with people like tax collectors and sinners. Either way, God’s messengers were subject to complaint.
11 tn Or “shown to be right.”
12 tc Most witnesses (B2 C D L Θ Ë1 33 Ï lat) have “children” (τέκνων, teknwn) here instead of “deeds” (ἔργων, ergwn), but since “children” is the reading of the parallel in Luke 7:35, scribes would be motivated to convert the less colorful “deeds” into more animate offspring of wisdom. Further, ἔργων enjoys support from א B* W (Ë13) as well as early versional and patristic support.
13 tn Grk “a certain man.” The Greek word ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a somewhat generic sense.
14 sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.
15 sn Look for the one that went astray. The parable pictures God’s pursuit of the sinner. On the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, see John 10:1-18.
16 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
17 tn Grk “Behold, I have prepared my dinner.” In some contexts, however, to translate ἄριστον (ariston) as “dinner” somewhat misses the point. L&N 23.22 here suggests, “See now, the feast I have prepared (for you is ready).”
18 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
19 sn This was an idiom for hypocrisy – just as the wall was painted on the outside but something different on the inside, so this person was not what he appeared or pretended to be (for discussion of a similar metaphor, see L&N 88.234; BDAG 1010 s.v. τοῖχος). See Deut 28:22; Ezek 13:10-16; Acts 23:3.
