Discovery BoxMatthew 5:19 
Context5:19 So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others 1 to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:18
Context5:18 I 2 tell you the truth, 3 until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter 4 will pass from the law until everything takes place.
Matthew 5:45
Context5:45 so that you may be like 5 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 7:11
Context7:11 If you then, although you are evil, 6 know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts 7 to those who ask him!
Matthew 11:11
Context11:11 “I tell you the truth, 8 among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least 9 in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.
Matthew 11:23
Context11:23 And you, Capernaum, 10 will you be exalted to heaven? 11 No, you will be thrown down to Hades! 12 For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.
Matthew 11:25
Context11:25 At that time Jesus said, 13 “I praise 14 you, Father, Lord 15 of heaven and earth, because 16 you have hidden these things from the wise 17 and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.
Matthew 13:33
Context13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with 18 three measures 19 of flour until all the dough had risen.” 20
Matthew 13:44
Context13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.
Matthew 13:52
Context13:52 Then he said to them, “Therefore every expert in the law 21 who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old.”
Matthew 19:21
Context19:21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money 22 to the poor, and you will have treasure 23 in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Matthew 23:13
Context23:13 “But woe to you, experts in the law 24 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! 25 You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! 26 For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
Matthew 24:31
Context24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven 27 to the other.
Matthew 26:64
Context26:64 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 28 of the Power 29 and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 30
1 tn Grk “teaches men” ( in a generic sense, people).
2 tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.
3 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
4 tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”
sn The smallest letter refers to the smallest Hebrew letter (yod) and the stroke of a letter to a serif (a hook or projection on a Hebrew letter).
5 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.
6 tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated concessively.
7 sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.
8 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
9 sn After John comes a shift of eras. The new era is so great that the lowest member of it (the one who is least in the kingdom of God) is greater than the greatest one of the previous era.
10 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.
map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.
11 tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.
12 sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).
13 tn Grk “At that time, answering, Jesus said.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
14 tn Or “thank.”
15 sn The title Lord is an important name for God, showing his sovereignty, but it is interesting that it comes next to a reference to the Father, a term indicative of God’s care. The two concepts are often related in the NT; see Eph 1:3-6.
16 tn Or “that.”
17 sn See 1 Cor 1:26-31.
18 tn Grk “hid in.”
19 sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 pounds (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.
20 tn Grk “it was all leavened.”
sn The parable of the yeast and the dough teaches that the kingdom of God will start small but eventually grow to permeate everything. Jesus’ point was not to be deceived by its seemingly small start, the same point made in the parable of the mustard seed, which preceded this one.
21 tn Or “every scribe.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4. It is possible that the term translated “expert in the law” (traditionally, “scribe”) here is a self-description used by the author, Matthew, to represent his role in conveying the traditions about Jesus to his intended audience. See David E. Orton, The Understanding Scribe [JSNTSup].
22 tn The words “the money” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
23 sn The call for sacrifice comes with a promise of eternal reward: You will have treasure in heaven. Jesus’ call is a test to see how responsive the man is to God’s direction through him. Will he walk the path God’s agent calls him to walk? For a rich person who got it right, see Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-10.
24 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
25 tn Grk “Woe to you…because you…” The causal particle ὅτι (Joti) has not been translated here for rhetorical effect (and so throughout this chapter).
26 tn Grk “because you are closing the kingdom of heaven before people.”
27 tn Or “of the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.
28 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.
29 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.
30 sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).
