Matthew 5:21 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 5:21

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

KJV

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ASV

Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

WEB

You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’

YLT

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

DBT

Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.

About this book

New Testament

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Cross-references

23 verses on the floor

Deuteronomy 5:17
Thou shalt not kill.
1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kill.
Numbers 35:30–34
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Exodus 21:12–14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Either of them is grammatically defensible, though the latter--"to the ancients"--is more consistent with New Testament usage (see the Greek of Ro 9:12, 26; 9:4); and most critics decide in favor of it. But it is not a question of Greek only.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Connections2

The quotation web

Quotes EXO 20:13
'Ye have heard that it was said... Thou shalt not kill' (Decalogue antithesis)
Formula (erreth) citing EXO 20:13
ekousate hoti errethe tois archaiois ('ye have heard that it was said to them of old') — the antithesis frame; erreth V-API-3S; here 'thou shalt not kill'

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G177710× in canon G540712× in canon G204647× in canon G292047× in canon G302165× in canon

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAT 5:21EXO 20:13 ROM 13:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 5:21DEU 5:17 EXO 20:13
MAT 5:21EXO 20:13 DEU 5:17
MAT 5:21EXO 20:13 MAT 5:21-22
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAT 5:21EXO 20:13 GEN 9:5-6
MAT 5:21EXO 20:13 EXO 21:14
MAT 5:21DEU 5:17 JAS 2:11
MAT 5:21DEU 5:17 GEN 9:6

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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