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.
Matthew 13:42 change wording from "the people who cause others to stop believing in me" to "the things that cause..." to reflect the broader view of the final judgment in the next clause and the original. The last part was changed also to reflect the Greek "lawless" or "law-breakers."
Matthew 13:16 change wording from "God is pleased with you" to conform to the sense of Jesus' explanation and quote. Also, changed "seen" to "realized" to continue the parallelism of sense with the next clause.
Matthew 12:49-50 change wording from "If you want to" to "able to" since this is the sense of Jesus' exhortation here as he explains in the next verses.
Matthew 12:49-50 change wording from, "I love as much as I love my mother and brothers." to what you see. The elided application defends Jesus' physical relationship as much as his spiritual one. But this is not what he says. He replaces the physical with the spiritual relationship as the ULB shows along with the original.
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