TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18: 15 “If your brother sins, go and expose his fault to him, one to one.If he listens, you have regained your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that the whole matter can be settled by the verdict of two or three witnesses. If he […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18:12 What’s your opinion? If some man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, won’t he leave the ninety nine on the hillside and go in search of the one that has strayed? And if he happens to find it, Amen, I tell you, he will be happier over it than […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18:6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trust in me to fall down, it would be good for him to have a donkey-turned millstone hung from his neck and be plunged in the ocean depths. Grief to the world, these causes of falling down! It is necessary that such […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 18 At that time his pupils came to Jesus, asking, ” So who is the greatest in the the Rule of Heaven?” He called to a child and and set her amongst them, and said,”Amen, I tell you , if you don’t turn about and become like children, you will not enter into […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 17:24 On their arrival in Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple Tax approached Peter and said,” Your teacher pays the Temple Tax, doesn’t he?” He said, “Yes.” And when Peter came into the house, Jesus was ahead of him, and said,”What do you think Peter? From whom do kings of this world get […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 17: 22 When they re-assembled in Galilee, Jesus spoke to them: “The Son of Man will soon be betrayed into the hands of human beings; they will kill him, and on the third day he will be awakened.” This made them very sorrowful. Matthew wants the reader to see that this is a […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 17: 14 As they came near the crowd a man approached him and went on his knees to him, “Master,” he said, “show kindness to my son, because he is moonstruck, and suffers badly, for he often falls into fire and often into water. And I brought him to your pupils but they […]

MATTHEW 17:1 After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves; and he was transformed before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothing became white like light. And – see this- Moses and Elijah were seen by them, […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 16: 21 From that time Jesus began to show his pupils that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo many hardships at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the legal experts and be put to death. And be awakened on the third day. Then Peter, taking him aside, began to […]

TRANSLATION MATTHEW 16:13 Now when Jesus arrived in the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his pupils, “Who do people say that this son of man is?” They told him, “Some say, John the Dipper, others Elijah, and others again Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “And who do you say […]