and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’Footnotes for the Book of Matthewa 1 Traditionally wise menb 6 Micah 5:2,4c 15 Hosea 11:1d 18 Jer. 31:15a 1 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.b 4 Deut. 8:3c 6 Psalm 91:11,12d 7 Deut. 6:16e 10 Deut. 6:13f 16 Isaiah 9:1,2g 25 That is, the Ten Citiesa 13 The Greek for temptation can also mean testing.b 13 Or from evil; some late manuscripts one, / for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever. Amen.c 22 The Greek for healthy here implies generous.d 23 The Greek for unhealthy here implies stingy.e 27 Or single cubit to your heighta 13 Hosea 6:6a 1 Greek in their townsb 5 The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.c 10 Mal. 3:1d 12 Or been forcefully advancinge 23 That is, the realm of the deada 15 Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)b 35 Psalm 78:2a 2,3 Some early manuscripts do not have When evening comes … of the times.b 18 The Greek word for Peter means rock.c 18 That is, the realm of the deadd 19 Or will have beene 25 The Greek word means either life or soul; also in verse 26.a 11 Some manuscripts include here the words of Luke 19:10.b 15 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman; also in verses 21 and 35.c 15 Some manuscripts sins against youd 16 Deut. 19:15e 18 Or will have beenf 22 Or seventy times seveng 24 Greek ten thousand talents; a talent was worth about 20 years of a day labourer’s wages.h 28 Greek a hundred denarii; a denarius was the usual daily wage of a day labourer (see 20:2).a 2 A denarius was the usual daily wage of a day labourer.a 17 A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizensb 32 Exodus 3:6c 37 Deut. 6:5d 39 Lev. 19:18e 44 Psalm 110:1a 15 Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11b 29 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4c 30 Or the tribes of the landd 30 See Daniel 7:13-14.e 33 Or hef 36 Some manuscripts do not have nor the Son.a 11 See Deut. 15:11.b 28 Some manuscripts the newc 31 Zech. 13:7d 50 Or ‘Why have you come, friend?’e 64 See Psalm 110:1; Daniel 7:13.