Matthew 5:47
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
KJV
καὶ ἐὰν ἀσπάσησθε τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ὑμῶν μόνον, τί περισσὸν ποιεῖτε; οὐχὶ καὶ οἱ ἐθνικοὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ποιοῦσιν;
Greek NT
Et si salutaveritis fratres vestros tantum, quid amplius facitis ? nonne et ethnici hoc faciunt ?
Vulgate
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
ASV
And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μόνον
monon
adverb · 66×
οὐχί
ouchi
particle · 53×
περισσός
perissos
adjective · 13×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀδελφός
adelphos
noun · 343×
ἀσπάζομαι
aspazomai
verb · 58×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐθνικός
ethnikos
adjective · 4×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἀδελφοὺς | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀδελφοὺς | RP: φίλους
- ἀδελφοὺς — SBLGNT
- ἀδελφοὺς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- φίλους — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐθνικοὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐθνικοὶ | RP: τελῶναι
- ἐθνικοὶ — SBLGNT
- ἐθνικοὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τελῶναι — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τὸ αὐτὸ | WH/Treg/NIV: τὸ αὐτὸ | RP: οὕτως
- τὸ αὐτὸ — SBLGNT
- τὸ αὐτὸ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὕτως — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2054Jesus acknowledged the Ten Commandments, but he also showed the power of the Spirit at work in their letter. He preached a "righteousness [which] exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees"5 as well as that of the Gentiles.6 He unfolded all the demands of the Commandments. "You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You shall not kill.' . . . But I say to you that every…
2. And if any man will sue you at the law, and take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Matthew 5:40 For not in the matter of blows only, but of our goods also, He would have such forbearance exhibited. Wherefore He again employs the same strong figure. That is, as in the other case He commands to overcome in suffering, so here again, by allowing ourselves to be depri…
§96And first of all let us imitate the breadth of His love. For the Church, the Bride of Christ, is one; and yet so vast is the love of the divine Spouse that it embraces in His Bride the whole human race without exception. Our Savior shed His Blood precisely in order that He might reconcile men to God through the Cross, and might constrain them to unite in one body, however widel…
Cross-references
- 1Pet 2:20 — For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
- 1Pet 2:20 — For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
- Luke 6:32 — For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
- Luke 9:20 — He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
- Matt 5:20 — For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- Neh 5:15 — But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the peop