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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Matthew 5:26
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Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
I promise you that you will not get out until you have paid the last cent you owe.
Yes indeed! I tell you, you will certainly not get out until you have paid the last penny.
Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence till thou hast paid the last farthing.
I assure you that you will not leave there until you have paid everything you owe.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.
Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.
Verely I say vnto thee, thou shalt not come out thence, till thou hast payed the vtmost farthing.
Truly I say to you, that you would never come out thence until you had paid the last cent.
There you will stay, I tell you, until you pay the last penny of your fine.
Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last peruta.
Truly I tell you, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last penny!"
26 And, Amen I say unto thee, that thou shalt not come forth from thence till thou hast rendered the last shamuna [fn]
Verily I say to thee, Thou wilt not come out from there until thou hast paid the last farthing.
Truly I say to you, you shall by no means come out from there, until you have paid the last dollar.
Verily, I say to thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny!
Truly, I say to you, In no way shall you come out from there until you pay the last kodrantes.
I tell you the truth, you will not leave there until you have paid everything you owe.
I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.
Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt in no wise come out thence, till thou hast paid the last farthing.
I solemnly tell you that you will certainly not be released till you have paid the very last farthing.
Treuli Y seie to thee, thou shalt not go out fro thennus, til thou yelde the last ferthing.
For sure, I tell you, you will not be let out of prison until you have paid every piece of money of the fine.
Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
"I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid the last cent.
Ueryly I say vnto thee, thou shalt not come out thence, tyll thou hast payde the vtmost farthyng.
Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.
I assure you: You will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
Uerily I say vnto thee, thou shalt by no meanes come out thence, till thou hast payd the vttermost farthing.
Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.
truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.
I say vnto ye verely: thou shalt not come out thece till thou have payed ye utmost farthige.
verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.
I saye vnto the verely: thou shalt not come out thece, till thou haue payed the vtmost farthinge.
I assure you, you will not be discharged till you have paid to the very last farthing.
I tell you the truth, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
"Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last quadrans.
And if that happens, you surely won't be free again until you have paid the last penny.
I'm tellin' you that you won't get out before every last penny has been repaid.
"Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Thou: Matthew 18:34, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:46, Luke 12:59, Luke 16:26, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, James 2:13
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:11 - in vain Matthew 5:18 - verily Luke 7:6 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Verily, I say unto thee,.... This may be depended upon, you may assure yourself of it, that
thou shalt by no means come out thence, from prison,
till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing, or "last farthing"; or as the Ethiopic version reads it, "till thou hast exactly paid all"; which seems to express the inexorableness of the creditor, and the impossibility of the debtor's release.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Agree with thine adversary quickly - This is still an illustration of the sixth commandment. To be in hostility, to go to law, to be litigious, is a violation always, on one side or the other, of the law requiring us to love our neighbor, and our Saviour regards it as a violation of the sixth commandment. While you are in the way with him, says he, that is, while you are going to the court, before the trial has taken place, it is your duty, if possible, to come to an agreement. It is wrong to carry the contention to a court of law. See 1 Corinthians 6:6-7. The consequence of not being reconciled, he expresses in the language of courts. The adversary shall deliver to the judge, and he to the executioner, and he shall throw you into prison. He did not mean to say that this would be literally the way with God, but that His dealings with those that harbored these feelings, and would not be reconciled with their brethren, were represented by the punishment inflicted by human tribunals. That is, he would hold all such as violators of the sixth commandment, and would punish them accordingly.
There is no propriety in the use sometimes made of this verse, in representing God as the “adversary” of the sinner, and urging him to be reconciled to God while in the way to judgment. Nor does the phrase “thou shalt by no means come out thence until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing” refer to the eternity of future punishment. It is language taken from courts of justice, to illustrate the truth that God will punish people according to justice for not being reconciled to him. The punishment in the future world will be eternal indeed Matthew 25:46, but this passage does not prove it.
Thine adversary - A man that is opposed to us in law. It here means a creditor; a man who has a just claim on us.
In the way with him - While you are going before the court. Before the trial comes on. It is remarkable that this very direction is found in the Roman law of the Twelve Tables, which expressly directed the plaintiff and defendant to make up the matter while they were in the way, or going to the praetor - in via, rem uti pacunt orato. - Blackstone’s Commentary, iii. p. 299. Whether the Saviour had any reference to this cannot be determined. As the Roman laws prevailed to some extent in Palestine, however, it is possible that there was such an allusion.
The officer - The executioner; or, as we should say, the sheriff.
The uttermost farthing - The last farthing. All that is due. The farthing was a small coin used in Judea, equal to two mites. It was not quite equal to half a farthing of British money.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 5:26. The uttermost farthing. — Κοδραντην. The rabbins have this Greek word corrupted into קרדיונטסס kordiontes, and קונטריק, kontrik, and say, that two פרוטות prutoth make a kontarik, which is exactly the same with those words in Mark 12:42, λεπτα δυο, ο εστι κοδραντης, two mites, which are one farthing. Hence it appears that the λεπτον lepton was the same as the prutah. The weight of the prutah was half a barley-corn, and it was the smallest coin among the Jews, as the kodrantes, or farthing, was the smallest coin among the Romans. If the matter issue in law, strict justice will be done, and your creditor be allowed the fulness of his just claim; but if; while you are on the way, going to the magistrate, you come to a friendly agreement with him, he will relax in his claims, take a part for the whole, and the composition be, in the end, both to his and your profit.
This text has been considered a proper foundation on which to build not only the doctrine of a purgatory, but also that of universal restoration. But the most unwarrantable violence must be used before it can be pressed into the service of either of the above antiscriptural doctrines. At the most, the text can only be considered as a metaphorical representation of the procedure of the great Judge; and let it ever be remembered, that by the general consent of all (except the basely interested) no metaphor is ever to be produced in proof of any doctrine. In the things that concern our eternal salvation, we need the most pointed and express evidence on which to establish the faith of our souls.
