Matthew 5:29-30
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Context5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 1 5:30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
Matthew 11:11
Context11:11 “I tell you the truth, 2 among those born of women, no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least 3 in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is.
1 sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22.
2 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
3 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.