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The first part of this chapter, Matthew 6:1–18, deals with the outward and inward expression of piety, referring to almsgiving, private prayer and fasting. [2] New Testament scholar Dale Allison suggests that this section acts as "a sort of commentary" on Matthew 5:21-48, or a short "cult-didache": Matthew 5:21-48 details "what to do", whereas Matthew 6:1-18 teaches "how to do it". [3]
This commentary suggests that ελεημοσυνην may have been introduced here through a copyist's mistake, as the same word is also used in Matthew 6:2. [4] Jack Lewis also argues that dikaisune was the original wording as eleemosune appears in Matthew 6:2, and that that verse would be redundant if the two words are the same. [ 5 ]
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Fasting (verses 16–18) is Jesus' third example of 'pious deeds', [1] after previously discussing about almsgiving (verses 2–4) and prayer (verses 5–6). [2]The previous verse stated that, unlike the hypocrites, Jesus' followers should present a clean and normal appearance even when fasting.
Matthew 6:7–16 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
Matthew in a painted miniature from a volume of Armenian Gospels dated 1609, held by the Bodleian Library. Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 [5] and Matthew 10:3 [6] as a tax collector (in the New International Version and other translations of the Bible) who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus. [7]
Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! The World English Bible translates the ...
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