Discovery BoxMatthew 5:11 
Context5:11 “Blessed are you when people 1 insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely 2 on account of me.
Matthew 12:34
Context12:34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
Matthew 12:39
Context12:39 But he answered them, 3 “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 13:38
Context13:38 The field is the world and the good seed are the people 4 of the kingdom. The weeds are the people 5 of the evil one,
Matthew 13:49
Context13:49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous
Matthew 18:32
Context18:32 Then his lord called the first slave 6 and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!
Matthew 25:26
Context25:26 But his master answered, 7 ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?
1 tn Grk “when they insult you.” The third person pronoun (here implied in the verb ὀνειδίσωσιν [ojneidiswsin]) has no specific referent, but refers to people in general.
2 tc Although ψευδόμενοι (yeudomenoi, “bearing witness falsely”) could be a motivated reading, clarifying that the disciples are unjustly persecuted, its lack in only D it sys Tert does not help its case. Since the Western text is known for numerous free alterations, without corroborative evidence the shorter reading must be judged as secondary.
3 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
4 tn Grk “the sons of the kingdom.” This idiom refers to people who should properly be, or were traditionally regarded as, a part of God’s kingdom. L&N 11.13 translates the phrase: “people of God’s kingdom, God’s people.”
5 tn Grk “the sons of the evil one.” See the preceding note on the phrase “people of the kingdom” earlier in this verse, which is the opposite of this phrase. See also L&N 9.4; 11.13; 11.14.
6 tn Grk “him”; the referent (the first slave mentioned in v. 24) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Grk “But answering, his master said to him.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.
