Mt 3:2 change wording re kingdom from, "God will soon show that he is king" to what you see. This and other instances are changed to reflect Matthew's important distinction of using "heaven" rather than "of God" because the rule includes Jesus triumphant. This also is more than "showing" that he is king, but rather that he IS king and actively exercising his rule.
Mt 28:16 de-capitalize "the Eleven" since I can't find any reason to do so. This is not in any English version (fifteen of them) and does not serve a title or name of the group.
Mt 27:29 change "Peace be" to "Greetings" as the rendering of χαιρε which is the common greeting word. Here it is ironically applied to Jesus just as the soldiers would raise their right arms in salute to Caesar. Maybe "Salute to the king of the Jews!" would be better.
Mt 27:22 change wording since the text does not say anything about Pilate being astonished. From "Pilate was very astonished, and he asked," to what you see.
Mt 26 whole chapter remove first person references to Jesus speaking about himself. These should be third person as in the text since the MTTs could be confused and the notes say this adequately. Here in verse 1 and in verse 64 only.
Mt 25:34 change wording for kingdom to restore the kingdom concept from: "Come receive all the good things he will give you, for he is now beginning to rule over you completely" to what you see since this reflects the benefits of the kingdom applied to its citizens. Cf. Mt 5:3.
Matthew 25 remove all first person references to Jesus as the coming Messiah in the apocalyptic discourse as in chapter 24. These are interpretive (even if correct!) and not in the text and would confuse MTTs who rely on this. The notes should provide the explanation as they do when they say that Jesus speaks about himself in the third person.
Mt 24 the whole chapter. Remove personal references except where Jesus talks about what he says. All the pronominal references to Jesus as the Son of Man and the coming one are interpretive and beyond the text. Jesus is referring to himself but only the third person. I also cut out much of the redundancy. This became too much to explain in detail.
Mt 24:30 cut extra wording: " of God punishing them." This is an assumption as if they know of God already.
Also, cut the personal reference "as I return to earth." This is not in the text and the personal reference is not here including the returning to earth.
Mt 24:30 cut extra wording and clarify from: "everyone will see something in the sky that indicates that I, the Son of Man, am returning to the earth." to what you see. The original wording misled by "see something that indicates" instead of following the textual idea that the Son himself will appear.
Mt. 24:29 cut extra wording: "universe will become dark. The " from the first sentence since this is not in the text at all and is not needed for clarity.
Mt 24:23-24 reworded to restore verse numbering. Changed ""At that time people will appear who will say that they are me, the Christ, or that they are true prophets from God. They will perform many kinds of miracles and amazing things, in order to deceive people. They will even try to deceive you people whom God has chosen. So at that time, if someone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or if someone says, 'There is the Christ!' do not believe it!" to what you see.
Mt 24:14 changed wording about the kingdom from: "about how God is starting to rule over people in every part of the world" to what you see to avoid the idea that God's rule is limited to just starting (not implied in the text) or that it only extends to humans.
Mt 23:25 typo cut extra "on." Also, cut ", food and drink " in the last clause since it is redundant. Also, cut the word "more" before "food and drink" since this is assumed and the concomitant "than you will ever need."
Mt 23:17 cut "to use" since "dedication" does not imply use except as suggesting glory and honor. To say "to use" implies God will somehow manipulate it.
Mt 23:13 cut redundant wording in the last two sentences. This did read: "You are like men who close a gate so that others cannot enter God's city. You yourselves do not want to go in, and you keep others from entering, too." I cut both sentences because this added a simile not in the original and the redundancy could confuse the MTTs.
Mt 23:13 changed wording about kingdom from: "because you keep people from accepting him to rule over them." to what you see. I restored the word "heaven" since this is an important concept in Matthew that should not be lost. The rule of heaven includes Jesus, the Christ, as ruler and as God which is part of Matthew's distinct message compared to the other gospels.
Mt 23:10 cut personal reference for Jesus as the Christ since Jesus does not refer to himself this way until after the resurrection except by allusion.
Matthew 22:16 cut out a lot of the material already in the notes that serves here as background information and is not in the narrative text. ", who thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Jewish authorities required them to pay. They also sent some members of the party that supported King Herod. The members of that party thought that the Israelites should pay only the tax that the Roman government required them to pay."
Also, "even if it is an important person who does not like what you teach" to what you see.
Matt 21:43 cut extra clause, "So, because you reject me, I am going to tell you this:" to make it as you see. Also changed the tense of the main verb to the present continuative.
Matt 21:42 cut extra clause, "That is right, so" This is not in the text, not needed for the narrative flow and gives the impression that Jesus commended the rulers.
Matt 21:20 change wording, "We are astonished that" since this just repeats the introductory clause "They were astonished and said..." Also, the quote becomes a question which it is in the Greek NA28.
Matt 21:19 change wording, "immediately started to dry up." changed to what you see. There is no textual indication of "started to" but only that the tree did dry up immediately.
Matt 21:16 cut excess wording, "They thought that Jesus should not be allowing the children to say that, so " not in the text and covered in the notes. Also changed "children" to "people" because all the people are included in the Greek "these" used as a pronominal adjective.
Matt 21:15 cut excess wording, "because they did not believe that Jesus was the Christ." This is not in the text and is interpretive. This is already in the notes.
Matthew 19:1 change wording from ""In order to illustrate how God rewards people, I will compare the way God begins to rule his people with what the owner of an estate did." to what you see. The wording did not reflect the original at all and tended to confuse the MTTs. And the concept of the kingdom is changed.
Matthew 19:28 change wording "my magnificent throne" to what you see. The idea is that the throne is not glorious, but Jesus' status and exaltation is glorious.
Matthew 18:23 cut & rephrase the opening sentence, "In order to illustrate why you should do this, I will tell you a parable." since this far too dynamic and would tend to confuse the MTTs rather than help.
Also, the next sentence, "That king told some of his servants that" changed to cut the wording that is too far from the original.
Matthew 18:22 cut extra clause "--there is no end to the number of times" since this is not at all in the original, is interpretive and is explained in the notes.
Matthew 18:19 cut extra two words "God" after "whatever you ask ... " since these are assumed and not necessary here. The next phrase, "my Father" says this adequately.
Matthew 18:3 change wording. Eliminate "the way you think" after "change" because this is not in the original and limits the concept from "turn" to a mental process. What Jesus means is a lot more than that and is stated implicitly and should not be limited.
Matthew 15:17 cut extra sentence, "What people eat does not cause God to reject them." This certainly is true, but this is not in the text at all and is explained in the next chunk.
Matthew 13:57-58 change wording to get closer to the original and the intended meaning. To say that they rejected him because he was the Christ is a jump in assumption. Their offense was that a local boy should come back with such authority over them.
Matthew 13:52 change wording since the way it was was quite strained: "Because you understand all these parables, you will understand the following parable: You, along with all others, will teach people what you heard me say about how God wishes to rule over people. You will add that to what you formerly learned." I cut a lot of this extra wording and interpretation.
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