Matthew 1

a 1.1 Or A book

b 1.1 Or birth

c 1.1 Or Jesus Christ

d 1.7 Other ancient authorities read Asa

e 1.8 Other ancient authorities read Asa

f 1.10 Other ancient authorities read Amon

g 1.10 Other ancient authorities read Amon

* 1.12 1 Chr 3.17, 19

h 1.16 Or the Christ

* 1.16 Lk 1.27

i 1.17 Or the Christ

j 1.18 Or Jesus Christ

* 1.18 Lk 1.27, 35

* 1.23 Isa 7.14

k 1.25 Other ancient authorities read her firstborn son

* 1.25 Ex 13.2; Lk 2.21

Matthew 2

l 2.1 Or astrologers

m 2.2 Or at its rising

n 2.4 Or the Christ

* 2.5 Jn 7.42

o 2.6 Or rule

p 2.7 Or astrologers

q 2.9 Or at its rising

r 2.10 Gk saw the star

* 2.12 v 22

* 2.13 vv 19, 20

s 2.14 Gk he

* 2.14 Hos 11.1

t 2.16 Or astrologers

u 2.16 Or astrologers

* 2.18 Jer 31.15

v 2.21 Gk he

* 2.22 Mt 3.13; Lk 2.39

w 2.23 Gk Nazorean

* 2.23 Mk 1.24; Lk 1.26

Matthew 3

x 3.2 Or is at hand

* 3.6 Acts 19.4, 18

y 3.7 Other ancient authorities lack his

* 3.10 Mt 7.19

z 3.11 Or in

a 3.11 Or in

b 3.17 Or my beloved Son

Matthew 4

* 4.4 Deut 8.3

* 4.6 Ps 91.11, 12

* 4.7 Deut 6.16

c 4.12 Gk he

* 4.15 Isa 9.1, 2

d 4.17 Or is at hand

* 4.17 Mt 3.2; 10.7

* 4.20 Lk 18.28

e 4.23 Gk He

f 4.23 Gk gospel

* 4.24 Mt 8.6, 16, 28, 33; 9.2, 6; 17.15; Mk 1.32; Lk 2.2; 8.36

* 4.25 Mk 3.7, 8; Lk 6.17

Matthew 5

g 5.1 Gk he

* 5.4 Isa 61.2, 3

* 5.6 Isa 55.1, 2

* 5.9 Rom 8.14

* 5.10 1 Pet 3.14

h 5.11 Other ancient authorities lack falsely

* 5.11 1 Pet 4.14

* 5.13 Mk 9.50; Lk 14.34, 35

* 5.14 Phil 2.15

* 5.15 Mk 4.21; Lk 8.16

* 5.16 1 Pet 2.12

i 5.18 Gk one iota

* 5.18 Lk 16.17

j 5.19 Or annuls

* 5.19 Jas 2.10

k 5.22 Other ancient authorities add without cause

l 5.22 Gk say Raca to (an obscure term of abuse)

m 5.22 Gk Gehenna

* 5.23 Mt 8.4; 23.19

n 5.25 Gk lacks to court

o 5.29 Or stumble

p 5.29 Gk Gehenna

q 5.30 Or stumble

r 5.30 Gk Gehenna

s 5.37 Or evil

* 5.45 Job 25.3

Matthew 6

* 6.1 Mt 23.5

* 6.2 Rom 12.8

t 6.4 Other ancient authorities add openly

* 6.4 Col 3.23, 24

u 6.6 Other ancient authorities add openly

* 6.10 Mt 26.39, 42

v 6.11 Or our bread for tomorrow

* 6.11 Prov 30.8

* 6.12 Mt 18.21

w 6.13 Or us into testing

x 6.13 Or from evil. Other ancient authorities add, in some form, For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours forever. Amen.

y 6.15 Other ancient authorities add their trespasses

* 6.15 Mt 18.35

z 6.18 Other ancient authorities add openly

a 6.19 Gk eating

b 6.20 Gk eating

c 6.24 Gk mammon

* 6.24 Lk 16.13

d 6.25 Other ancient authorities lack or what you will drink

e 6.27 Or add one cubit to your height

f 6.33 Other ancient authorities lack of God

g 6.33 Or its

Matthew 7

Matthew 8

i 8.1 Gk he

j 8.6 Or child

k 8.8 Or child

* 8.8 Ps 107.20

l 8.10 Other ancient authorities read Truly I tell you, not even

m 8.13 Or child

* 8.14 1 Cor 9.5

* 8.17 Isa 53.4

n 8.18 Other ancient authorities read a crowd

* 8.18 Mk 4.35; Lk 8.22

* 8.22 Mt 9.9; Jn 1.43; 2.19

o 8.28 Other ancient authorities read Gergesenes or Gerasenes

Matthew 9

* 9.1 Mt 4.13

p 9.10 Gk reclined

q 9.10 Gk were reclining

r 9.14 Other ancient authorities lack often

* 9.14 Lk 18.12

* 9.18 Mt 8.2; Jn 9.38

* 9.21 Lk 6.19

* 9.30 Mt 8.4; 17.9

* 9.31 Mk 7.36

* 9.35 Mk 6.6; Lk 13.22

* 9.37 Lk 10.2; Jn 4.35

Matthew 10

s 10.1 Gk he

t 10.3 Other ancient authorities read Lebbaeus or Lebbaeus called Thaddaeus

* 10.5 Lk 9.52; Acts 8.5, 25

u 10.7 Or is at hand

* 10.7 Mt 3.2; Lk 10.9

* 10.15 Mt 11.22

v 10.28 Gk Gehenna

* 10.35 Mic 7.6

* 10.36 Mic 7.6

* 10.37 Lk 14.26

* 10.38 Mt 16.24

Matthew 11

w 11.2 Or the Christ

x 11.2 Other ancient authorities read two of his

* 11.3 Jn 11.27

* 11.7 Mt 3.1

y 11.8 Or Why, then, did you go out? To see someone

z 11.9 Other ancient authorities read Why, then, did you go out? To see a prophet?

* 11.9 Lk 1.76

* 11.10 Mal 3.1; Mk 1.2

a 11.12 Or has been coming violently

* 11.12 Lk 16.16

b 11.15 Other ancient authorities add to hear

c 11.19 Other ancient authorities read children

* 11.19 Mt 9.11; Lk 15.2

* 11.21 Jon 3.7, 8

* 11.22 v 24; Mt 10.15

* 11.24 Mt 10.15

d 11.25 Or praise

e 11.26 Or for so it was well-pleasing in your sight

Matthew 12

* 12.1 Deut 23.25

* 12.2 Ex 20.10

* 12.3 1 Sam 21.6

f 12.4 Other ancient authorities read he ate

* 12.4 Ex 25.30; Lev 24.5, 9

* 12.5 Num 28.9, 10

* 12.6 vv 41, 42

* 12.7 Hos 6.6; Mt 9.13

* 12.11 Lk 14.5

* 12.12 Mt 10.31

g 12.15 Other ancient authorities add crowds

* 12.15 Mt 10.23; 19.2

* 12.16 Mt 9.30

* 12.22 Mt 9.32, 33

* 12.23 Mt 9.27

* 12.25 Mt 9.4

h 12.27 Gk sons

* 12.30 Mk 9.40; Lk 9.50

* 12.31 Lk 12.10

* 12.33 Mt 7.17; Lk 6.43, 44

* 12.34 Mt 3.7; 23.33; Lk 6.45

* 12.39 Mt 16.4

* 12.40 Jon 1.17

* 12.41 Jon 1.2; 3.5

* 12.45 2 Pet 2.20

i 12.47 Other ancient authorities lack 12.47

j 12.48 Gk he

* 12.50 Jn 15.14

Matthew 13

* 13.2 Lk 5.3

* 13.8 Gen 26.12

k 13.9 Other ancient authorities add to hear

* 13.9 Mt 11.15

l 13.11 Or mysteries

* 13.12 Lk 19.26

* 13.15 Heb 5.11

* 13.19 Mt 4.23

m 13.21 Or stumbles

* 13.21 Mt 11.6

n 13.22 Some ancient authorities read the

* 13.23 v 8

* 13.24 Lk 13.19, 20

* 13.30 Mt 3.12

* 13.31 Isa 2.2, 3; Mic 4.1

o 13.33 Gk hid in

* 13.33 Gen 18.6; Gal 5.9

* 13.34 Mk 4.33, 34

p 13.35 Other ancient authorities read the prophet Isaiah

q 13.35 Other ancient authorities add of the world

r 13.41 Or stumbling

* 13.41 Mt 24.31

s 13.43 Other ancient authorities add to hear

* 13.44 Isa 55.1; Phil 3.7, 8

* 13.47 Mt 22.10

* 13.49 Mt 25.32

* 13.50 v 42

* 13.53 Mt 7.28; 11.1; 19.1; 26.1

t 13.54 Gk them

* 13.54 Mt 4.23; 7.28

* 13.55 Lk 3.23; Jn 6.42

* 13.57 Jn 4.44

Matthew 14

* 14.3 Lk 3.19, 20

* 14.4 Lev 18.16; 20.21

u 14.5 Gk he

* 14.14 Mt 9.36

* 14.17 Mt 16.9

* 14.23 Lk 6.12; 9.28

v 14.24 Other ancient authorities read was out on the sea

* 14.26 Lk 24.37

w 14.30 Other ancient authorities read the wind

* 14.31 Mt 6.30; 8.26; 16.8

* 14.36 Mt 9.20; Mk 3.10

Matthew 15

* 15.2 Lk 11.38

x 15.4 Other ancient authorities read commanded, saying

y 15.5 Or is an offering

z 15.5 Other ancient authorities add or the mother

a 15.6 Other ancient authorities read law or commandment

* 15.8 Isa 29.13

b 15.14 Other ancient authorities lack of the blind

* 15.15 Mt 13.36

* 15.16 Mt 16.9

* 15.18 Mt 12.34; Jas 3.6

* 15.22 Mt 4.24; 9.27

* 15.24 Mt 10.6, 23

c 15.27 Gk lords’

* 15.30 Lk 7.22

* 15.31 Mt 9.8

* 15.32 Mt 9.36

d 15.39 Other ancient authorities read Magdala or Magdalan

Matthew 16

e 16.1 Gk him

f 16.3 Other ancient authorities lack 2When it is . . . of the times

* 16.4 Jon 3.4, 5; Mt 12.39

* 16.6 Lk 12.1

* 16.8 Mt 6.30; 8.26; 14.31

* 16.14 Mt 14.2; Jn 1.21

g 16.16 Or the Christ

h 16.18 Gk Petros

i 16.18 Gk petra

* 16.18 Jn 1.42

j 16.20 Other ancient authorities add Jesus

k 16.20 Or the Christ

* 16.20 Mk 3.12; 5.43; 7.36; 9.9

l 16.23 Or stumbling block

Matthew 17

m 17.4 Other ancient authorities read we

n 17.5 Or my beloved Son

* 17.7 Mt 14.27

* 17.10 Mal 4.5; Mt 11.14

* 17.11 Mal 4.6; Lk 1.16, 17

* 17.12 Mt 11.14; 14.3, 10; 16.21

o 17.18 Gk it or him

p 17.18 Gk the demon

q 17.20 Gk faith as a grain of

r 17.20 Other ancient authorities add 17.21, But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting

s 17.22 Other ancient authorities read living

* 17.24 Ex 30.13; 38.26

* 17.25 Mt 22.17, 19; Rom 13.7

t 17.26 Gk he

Matthew 18

u 18.6 Or stumble

* 18.6 Lk 17.1, 2

v 18.7 Or stumbling blocks

w 18.8 Or stumble

* 18.8 Mt 5.29, 30; Mk 9.43, 45

x 18.9 Or stumble

y 18.9 Gk Gehenna

z 18.10 Other ancient authorities add 18.11, For the Son of Man came to save the lost

a 18.14 Other ancient authorities read my

b 18.15 Other ancient authorities lack against you

c 18.22 Or seventy times seven

Matthew 19

* 19.2 Mt 4.23

* 19.3 Mt 5.31

* 19.4 Gen 1.27; 5.2

d 19.9 Other ancient authorities lack and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery

e 19.10 Other ancient authorities read His

f 19.20 Other ancient authorities add from my youth

g 19.21 Gk lacks the money

* 19.27 Mt 4.20; Lk 5.11

h 19.29 Other ancient authorities lack wife or

i 19.29 Other ancient authorities read manifold

Matthew 20

* 20.1 Mt 13.24; 21.28, 33

* 20.13 Mt 22.12; 26.50

j 20.15 Gk is your eye evil because I am good?

k 20.16 Other ancient authorities add for many are called, but few are chosen

* 20.16 Mt 19.30

* 20.18 Mt 16.21

* 20.20 Mt 4.21; 8.2; 9.18; Jn 9.38

* 20.21 Mt 19.28

l 20.22 Other ancient authorities add or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

* 20.24 Lk 22.24, 25

m 20.30 Other ancient authorities lack Lord

* 20.30 Mt 9.27

Matthew 21

n 21.3 Or ‘The Lord needs them and will send them back immediately.’

o 21.8 Or Most of the crowd

* 21.9 v 15; Ps 118.26; Mt 23.39

p 21.12 Other ancient authorities add of God

q 21.15 Gk lacks heard

* 21.15 v 9; Lk 19.39

* 21.16 Ps 8.2

* 21.23 Acts 4.7; 7.27

* 21.26 Mt 14.5; Mk 6.20

* 21.28 v 33; Mt 20.21

r 21.30 Gk He

* 21.31 Lk 7.29, 50

* 21.32 Mt 3.1ff; Lk 3.12, 13; 7.29, 30

* 21.34 Mt 22.3

s 21.42 Or keystone (in an arch)

* 21.43 Mt 8.12

t 21.44 Other ancient authorities lack 21.44

* 21.46 vv 11, 26

Matthew 22

* 22.2 Mt 13.24

* 22.3 Mt 21.34

* 22.4 Mt 21.36

* 22.7 Lk 19.27

* 22.8 Mt 10.11, 13

* 22.10 Mt 13.47

* 22.12 Mt 20.13; 26.50

* 22.13 Mt 8.12; Lk 13.28

* 22.16 Mk 3.6; 8.15

* 22.17 Mt 17.25

* 22.21 Rom 13.7

u 22.23 Other ancient authorities read who say that there is no resurrection

* 22.23 Acts 23.8

* 22.24 Deut 25.5

* 22.29 Jn 20.9

v 22.30 Other ancient authorities lack of God

* 22.33 Mt 7.28

* 22.35 Lk 7.30; 10.25; 11.45; 14.3

* 22.37 Deut 6.5

* 22.40 Mt 7.12

w 22.42 Or Christ

* 22.42 Mt 9.27

x 22.43 Gk in spirit

Matthew 23

* 23.2 Ezra 7.6, 25; Neh 8.4

y 23.4 Other ancient authorities lack hard to bear

* 23.5 Deut 6.8; Mt 6.1, 2, 5, 16

* 23.6 Lk 11.43; 14.7; 20.46

* 23.8 Jas 3.1

* 23.9 Mal 1.6

z 23.10 Or the Christ

* 23.11 Mt 20.26

a 23.13 Other authorities add 23.14 here (or after 23.12): Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for the sake of appearance you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation

* 23.13 Lk 11.52

b 23.15 Gk Gehenna

* 23.16 v 24; Mt 5.33–35; 15.14

* 23.17 Ex 30.29

* 23.19 Ex 29.37

* 23.22 Ps 11.4; Mt 5.34

c 23.26 Other ancient authorities lack and of the plate

d 23.33 Gk Gehenna

e 23.38 Other ancient authorities lack desolate

Matthew 24

* 24.1 Mk 13.1

f 24.5 Or the Christ

g 24.7 Other ancient authorities add and pestilences

h 24.10 Or stumble

* 24.10 Mt 11.6

* 24.13 Mt 10.22; Rev 2.7

i 24.14 Or gospel

* 24.14 Rom 10.18; Col 1.6, 23

* 24.22 Isa 65.8, 9

j 24.23 Or the Christ

* 24.23 Lk 17.23; 21.8

k 24.24 Or christs

* 24.27 Lk 17.24

l 24.33 Or it

* 24.34 Mt 16.28; 23.36

* 24.35 Mt 5.18

m 24.36 Other ancient authorities lack nor the Son

* 24.40 Lk 17.34, 35

n 24.42 Other ancient authorities read at what hour

* 24.44 1 Thess 5.6

o 24.45 Gk to give them

* 24.45 Mt 25.21, 23

* 24.46 Rev 16.15

* 24.47 Mt 25.21, 23

p 24.51 Or cut him off

* 24.51 Mt 8.12; 13.42, 50; 25.30

Matthew 25

q 25.1 Gk virgins

r 25.1 Other ancient authorities add and the bride

* 25.2 Mt 7.24; 10.16; 24.45

s 25.7 Gk virgins

* 25.7 Lk 12.35

t 25.11 Gk virgins

* 25.11 Mt 7.21–23

u 25.13 Other ancient authorities add in which the Son of Man is coming

* 25.15 Mt 18.23, 24; Lk 19.13

* 25.19 Mt 18.23

* 25.21 Mt 24.45, 47; Lk 16.10

* 25.27 Lk 17.24

* 25.31 Mt 16.27; 19.28

* 25.32 Ezek 34.17, 20

* 25.45 Prov 14.31; 17.5

Matthew 26

* 26.1 Mt 7.28; 11.1; 13.53; 19.1

* 26.2 Jn 13.1

* 26.4 Mt 12.14

* 26.5 Mt 27.24

v 26.6 Or the skin-diseased

* 26.6 Mt 21.17

* 26.11 Deut 15.11

* 26.12 Jn 19.40

w 26.13 Or gospel

* 26.18 Jn 7.6, 8; 12.23; 13.1; 17.1

x 26.20 Other ancient authorities lack disciples

y 26.26 Other ancient authorities read after giving thanks

z 26.28 Other ancient authorities add new

* 26.29 Acts 10.41

* 26.30 Mk 14.26

a 26.31 Or stumble

* 26.32 Mt 28.7, 10, 16

b 26.33 Or stumble

c 26.33 Or stumble

* 26.34 Jn 13.37

* 26.35 Jn 13.37

* 26.37 Mt 4.21

* 26.38 Jn 12.27

* 26.40 v 38

d 26.41 Or into testing

* 26.41 Mt 6.13; Lk 11.4

* 26.42 Jn 4.34; 5.30; 6.38

* 26.45 v 18; Jn 12.23, 27; 13.1; 17.1

* 26.49 v 25

e 26.50 Or Why are you here?

* 26.50 Mt 20.13; 22.12

* 26.54 v 24; Lk 24.25, 44, 46

* 26.56 v 54

* 26.58 Jn 18.15

* 26.61 Mt 27.40

f 26.63 Or Christ

g 26.68 Or Christ

h 26.71 Gk Nazorean

* 26.75 v 34; Jn 13.38

Matthew 27

i 27.3 Gk he

* 27.3 Mt 26.14, 15

j 27.4 Other ancient authorities read righteous

* 27.4 v 24

* 27.5 Acts 1.18

* 27.8 Acts 1.19

k 27.9 Other ancient authorities read Zechariah or Isaiah

l 27.9 Or I took

m 27.9 Or the price of the precious One

* 27.9 Zech 11.12, 13

n 27.10 Other ancient authorities read I gave

* 27.12 Mt 26.63; Jn 19.9

* 27.14 1 Tim 6.13

o 27.16 Other ancient authorities lack Jesus

p 27.17 Other ancient authorities lack Jesus

q 27.17 Or the Christ

* 27.19 v 24; Acts 12.21

* 27.20 Acts 3.14

r 27.22 Or the Christ

s 27.24 Other ancient authorities read this righteous blood or this righteous man’s blood

* 27.26 Isa 53.5

t 27.27 Gk the praetorium

* 27.31 Isa 53.7

* 27.32 Heb 13.12

* 27.34 Ps 69.21

u 27.35 Other ancient authorities add in order that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, “They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

* 27.35 Ps 22.18

* 27.36 v 54

* 27.38 Isa 53.12

v 27.39 Or blasphemed

* 27.39 Ps 22.7; 109.25

w 27.42 Or is he unable to save himself?

* 27.42 Jn 1.49; 12.13

* 27.43 Ps 22.8

x 27.45 Or earth

* 27.45 Am 8.9

* 27.46 Ps 22.1

* 27.48 Ps 69.21

y 27.49 Other ancient authorities add And another took a spear and pierced his side, and out came water and blood

z 27.50 Or gave up his spirit

* 27.51 v 54; Ex 26.31; Heb 9.3

a 27.54 Or a son of God

* 27.54 Mt 3.17; 17.5

* 27.55 Lk 8.2, 3

b 27.56 Some ancient authorities read Joses

* 27.56 Mk 15.40, 47; Lk 24.10

* 27.57 Acts 13.29

* 27.60 Mt 28.2; Mk 16.4

c 27.65 Or Take a guard

d 27.65 Gk you know how

* 27.65 Mt 28.11

* 27.66 v 60; Mt 28.11–15

Matthew 28

* 28.1 Mt 27.56; Lk 8.2

* 28.2 Mt 27.51, 60

* 28.5 v 10; Mt 14.27

e 28.6 Other ancient authorities read the Lord

f 28.7 Other ancient authorities lack from the dead

* 28.7 v 16; Mt 26.32

* 28.11 Mt 27.65, 66

g 28.12 Gk they

* 28.14 Mt 27.2

* 28.16 v 7; Mt 26.32

h 28.20 Other ancient authorities add Amen