Matthew 9:13
Context9:13 Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ 1 For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 11:16
Context11:16 “To 2 what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, 3
Matthew 20:8
Context20:8 When 4 it was evening 5 the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay 6 starting with the last hired until the first.’
Matthew 26:53
Context26:53 Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions 7 of angels right now?
1 sn A quotation from Hos 6:6 (see also Matt 12:7).
2 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
3 tn Grk “who call out to one another, saying.” The participle λέγουσιν (legousin) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
5 sn That is, six o’clock in the evening, the hour to pay day laborers. See Lev 19:13b.
6 tc ‡ Most witnesses (including B D W Θ Ë1,13 33vid Ï latt sy) have αὐτοῖς (autois, “to them”) after ἀπόδος (apodos, “give the pay”), but this seems to be a motivated reading, clarifying the indirect object. The omission is supported by א C L Z 085 Or. Nevertheless, NA27 includes the pronoun on the basis of the greater external attestation.
7 sn A legion was a Roman army unit of about 6,000 soldiers, so twelve legions would be 72,000.