Discovery BoxMatthew 6:5 
Context6:5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues 1 and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:24
Context6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate 2 the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise 3 the other. You cannot serve God and money. 4
Matthew 12:18
Context12:18 “Here is 5 my servant whom I have chosen,
the one I love, in whom I take great delight. 6
I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
1 sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.
2 sn The contrast between hate and love here is rhetorical. The point is that one will choose the favorite if a choice has to be made.
3 tn Or “and treat [the other] with contempt.”
4 tn Grk “God and mammon.”
sn The term money is used to translate mammon, the Aramaic term for wealth or possessions. The point is not that money is inherently evil, but that it is often misused so that it is a means of evil; see 1 Tim 6:6-10, 17-19. God must be first, not money or possessions.
5 tn Grk “Behold my servant.”
6 tn Grk “in whom my soul is well pleased.”
