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13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness,[a] where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’ 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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15 Then the Pharisees[b] went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:13 tn The Greek term translated “darkness” (σκότος) is associated with Tartarus in Aeschylus, Eumenides 72; other references to the darkness of death and the underworld can be found throughout the classical literature as far back as Homer. BDAG 932 s.v. σκότος 1 states: “Of the darkness of the place of punishment far removed fr. the heavenly kingdom (Philo, Exsecr. 152 βαθὺ σκότος. Cp. Wsd 17:20; PsSol 14:9.—σκ. κ. βόρβορος ‘gloom and muck’ await those who are untrue to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Ael. Aristid. 22, 10 K.=19 p. 421 D. Of the darkness of death and the underworld in Hom. and the Trag. As the domain of evil spirits PGM 36, 138; Theoph. Ant. 2, 7 [p. 110, 5]) τὸ σκ. τὸ ἐξώτερον the darkness outside Mt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30.”
  2. Matthew 22:15 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
  3. Matthew 22:15 tn Grk “trap him in word.”