Discovery BoxMatthew 5:47 
Context5:47 And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?
Matthew 7:6
Context7:6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces. 1
Matthew 9:14
Context9:14 Then John’s 2 disciples came to Jesus 3 and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees 4 fast often, 5 but your disciples don’t fast?”
Matthew 10:29
Context10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? 6 Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 7
Matthew 11:29
Context11:29 Take my yoke 8 on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 12:2
Context12:2 But when the Pharisees 9 saw this they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
Matthew 12:13
Context12:13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, 10 as healthy as the other.
Matthew 15:3
Context15:3 He answered them, 11 “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
Matthew 21:5
Context21:5 “Tell the people of Zion, 12
‘Look, your king is coming to you,
unassuming and seated on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’” 13
Matthew 26:42
Context26:42 He went away a second time and prayed, 14 “My Father, if this cup 15 cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”
Matthew 26:52
Context26:52 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back in its place! 16 For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.
1 tn Or “otherwise the latter will trample them under their feet and the former will turn around and tear you to pieces.” This verse is sometimes understood as a chiasm of the pattern a-b-b-a, in which the first and last clauses belong together (“dogs…turn around and tear you to pieces”) and the second and third clauses belong together (“pigs…trample them under their feet”).
2 sn John refers to John the Baptist.
3 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
5 sn John’s disciples and the Pharisees followed typical practices with regard to fasting and prayer. Many Jews fasted regularly (Lev 16:29-34; 23:26-32; Num 29:7-11). The zealous fasted twice a week on Monday and Thursday.
6 sn The penny refers to an assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest items sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.
7 tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”
8 sn A yoke is a wooden bar or frame that joins two animals like oxen or horses so that they can pull a wagon, plow, etc. together. Here it is used figuratively of the restrictions that a teacher or rabbi would place on his followers.
9 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
10 sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.
11 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.”
12 tn Grk “Tell the daughter of Zion” (the phrase “daughter of Zion” is an idiom for the inhabitants of Jerusalem: “people of Zion”). The idiom “daughter of Zion” has been translated as “people of Zion” because the original idiom, while firmly embedded in the Christian tradition, is not understandable to most modern English readers.
13 tn Grk “the foal of an animal under the yoke,” i.e., a hard-working animal. This is a quotation from Zech 9:9.
14 tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.
15 tn Grk “this”; the referent (the cup) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
16 tn The translation “put your sword back in its place” for this phrase is given in L&N 85.52.
