Semantic Analysis — English → Hindi | Matthew 1–28

Purpose and Method

This document analyzes every chapter of Matthew in the original Koine Greek, first to last, per PRD Phase 1 Step 1. The core passage (Matthew 5:1-12, the Beatitudes) receives full verse-by-verse treatment. Every other chapter receives a chapter section covering its load-bearing theological terms with the same seven fields: original word, transliteration, literal meaning, semantic range, English variants, contextual theological meaning, and destination-language (Hindi) rendering risk. Chapters that introduce no new theological vocabulary beyond terms already analyzed state this explicitly.

Governing rule: Any term already recorded in the baseline Romans/Galatians translation_memory.json MUST reuse the recorded Hindi rendering exactly. This document flags such reuse with [BASELINE REUSE]. New terms proposed for Matthew are flagged [NEW TERM] and carry provisional risk ratings for adjudication in later Phase 1/2 steps.

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CORE PASSAGE: Matthew 5:1-12 (The Beatitudes) — Verse-by-Verse

Matthew 5:1

Greek: Ἰδὼν δὲ τοὺς ὄχλους ἀνέβη εἰς τὸ ὄρος· καὶ καθίσαντος αὐτοῦ προσῆλθαν αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning (Matthew)	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ὄρος oros mountain, hill	any elevated terrain; in Matthew echoes Sinai (law-giving) and later the Mount of Transfiguration/Olivet mountain, mount, hill	Positions Jesus as a new Moses delivering authoritative teaching from a mountain — a deliberate typological echo of Exodus 19-20	पहाड़ (pahāḍa). Low risk as vocabulary; Medium risk of lost theological signal if translator notes do not flag the Sinai typology, since Hindi readers have no automatic Exodus association.
μαθητής mathētēs learner, one who follows a teacher	a committed follower who learns by attachment and obedience, not a casual student disciple, follower, student	[NEW TERM] Foundational Matthean identity-term for “Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus.” Marks those who leave everything to follow Jesus (4:20,22; 19:27).	चेला (celā) — the established Hindi Bible term (BSI OV/NV). High risk: शिष्य is explicitly rejected — it imports the guru-śiṣya paradigm, where the disciple progresses toward the guru’s own attained enlightenment/liberation through merit and instruction. Biblical discipleship (चेला) is grace-grounded allegiance to a divine Lord who saves, not a merit-path toward self-attained realization under a human teacher.
προσέρχομαι proserchomai to come near, approach	approach with intent, often reverential approach to Jesus throughout Matthew came to him, approached	Disciples’ posture of approach models right response to Jesus’s authority	निकट आए / पास आए. Low risk.

Matthew 5:2

Greek: καὶ ἀνοίξας τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτοὺς λέγων.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
διδάσκω didaskō to teach	authoritative instruction, distinct from mere information-transfer taught, was teaching	Opens the discourse that closes with “he taught as one having authority” (7:28-29) — directly feeds the doctrine “The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching”	सिखाना / उपदेश देना (sikhānā / upadeśa denā). Medium risk: उपदेश can suggest a guru’s discourse among many competing teachers; context across chs. 5-7 must establish this teaching’s unique, non-negotiable authority (see ἐξουσία, ch. 7 below).

Matthew 5:3

Greek: Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι, ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
μακάριος makarios blessed, happy, fortunate	a state of divine favor/flourishing pronounced by God, not a subjective emotion or luck blessed, happy, fortunate	[NEW TERM] Opens each Beatitude as a divine, paradoxical verdict of favor on those the world does not consider fortunate. Not a self-help happiness principle.	धन्य (dhanya) — established BSI rendering. High risk: धन्य risks collapsing into भाग्यशाली (lucky/fortunate by chance) or a generic congratulatory remark. Must be understood as God’s own eschatological pronouncement of favored status, deliberately inverting worldly and even karma-based notions of merit-determined fortune (baseline already forbids भाग्य/fate language for election/providence; the same caution transfers here). Mandatory translator note distinguishing धन्य from भाग्यशाली.
πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι ptōchoi tō pneumati poor in the spirit	economic poverty extended metaphorically to spiritual destitution and utter dependence on God poor in spirit, spiritually poor, humbled in spirit	The entryway to the kingdom is not achievement but the honest admission of having nothing to offer God — the polar opposite of merit-claiming religion	मन के दीन (mana ke dīna) — established BSI rendering. High risk: दीन alone carries strong socioeconomic/caste connotations (poor, lowly, downtrodden) in Hindi; readers may hear a class marker rather than a spiritual posture available to every class. Must clarify this is spiritual bankruptcy before God, open to rich and poor alike, entered only through अनुग्रह (grace), not a status earned by literal poverty or ritual humility.
βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν basileia tōn ouranōn kingdom of the heavens	God’s present and coming reign; Matthew’s circumlocution for the divine kingship, avoiding direct use of God’s name per Jewish reverential custom kingdom of heaven	[NEW TERM, distinct Greek phrase from baseline’s “kingdom of God”] Matthew’s signature phrase (32 occurrences) for the central doctrine “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Theologically identical referent to βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ (which Matthew also uses, e.g. 12:28; 19:24; 21:31,43) — the two phrases are interchangeable in Matthew, not two different kingdoms.	स्वर्ग का राज्य (svarga kā rājya). Critical risk: स्वर्ग in Hindi/Hindu religious vocabulary denotes svarga-loka — a heavenly realm of sensory reward reached by accumulated merit (puṇya), typically temporary, from which one eventually returns to the rebirth cycle. Rendering βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν as स्वर्ग का राज्य risks being heard as (a) a future afterlife destination rather than a present-and-coming reign breaking into history now (4:17; 12:28), and (b) a merit-attained reward-realm rather than a kingdom entered by grace through repentance and faith. MANDATORY: every occurrence requires a translator note tying स्वर्ग का राज्य to परमेश्वर का राज्य (baseline term, reused for the ~5 instances where Matthew uses that phrase) as one and the same reign of God, and clarifying it is inaugurated now, not merely a post-mortem reward. Theologian review required for every occurrence, not merely first use, given the doctrine’s centrality to the whole book.

Matthew 5:4

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ πενθοῦντες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ παρακληθήσονται.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πενθέω pentheō to mourn, grieve, lament	grief over loss, death, or (contextually) over sin and the world’s brokenness mourn, grieve	Godly sorrow — including sorrow over sin — that God himself will personally comfort, not stoic detachment from grief	शोक करनेवाले (śoka karanevāle). Medium risk: शोक is strongly associated with funeral/bereavement mourning in Hindi; must be broadened by context to cover sorrow over sin and the world’s fallenness, not only death.
παρακαλέω (pass.) parakaleō to comfort, console, summon alongside	comfort/consolation given personally, often by God himself; root shared with παράκλητος (Comforter/Holy Spirit) will be comforted	Comfort comes relationally, from a personal God who draws near to the grieving — not through renunciation of attachment (vairāgya) or self-detachment from sorrow as in some ascetic paths to peace	शान्ति दी जाएगी / उन्हें शान्ति मिलेगी. Medium risk: must not be read as a technique for achieving inner calm through detachment; comfort is God’s gracious gift, received relationally, not self-generated.

Matthew 5:5

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ πραεῖς, ὅτι αὐτοὶ κληρονομήσουσι τὴν γῆν.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πραΰς praus gentle, mild, meek	controlled strength submitted to God’s authority, not weakness or passivity; used of Jesus himself (11:29; 21:5) and Moses meek, gentle, humble	Christlike gentleness under God’s rule, echoing Psalm 37:11, which God will vindicate with a future inheritance	नम्र (namra) — consistent with baseline fruit-of-the-Spirit gentleness vocabulary (नम्रता). Medium risk: नम्र may be heard as social passivity or an expected caste-submissiveness rather than Christlike strength held in restraint under God; must be anchored to Jesus’s own self-description in 11:29.
κληρονομέω…γῆν klēronomeō…gēn to inherit…the earth/land	echoes the OT land-inheritance promise, now universalized to the renewed creation inherit the earth, inherit the land	Points toward the future renewed creation the meek will possess — not present-age territorial conquest, and not escape from the material world (moksha-style)	पृथ्वी के वारिस होंगे — वारिस consistent with baseline heir entry. Medium risk: must be tied to the baseline new_creation (नई सृष्टि) framework so it is not read either as literal present-age land-grab or as liberation from the earth.

Matthew 5:6

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ πεινῶντες καὶ διψῶντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην, ὅτι αὐτοὶ χορτασθήσονται.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πεινάω / διψάω peinaō / dipsaō to hunger / to thirst	physical hunger and thirst used metaphorically for intense longing hunger, thirst; long for, crave	Intense desire for God’s righteousness — both personal right standing and God’s justice being established in the world	भूखे और प्यासे (bhūkhe aura pyāse). Medium risk as vocabulary; risk transfers from the paired term below.
δικαιοσύνη dikaiosynē righteousness	[BASELINE REUSE — Critical] right standing before God, and here also God’s justice/righteous order being established righteousness, justice	Directly feeds the doctrine “Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees” (developed fully at 5:20). The longing here is for a gift/reality received from God, not personal moral achievement earned by ascetic hunger-practice	धार्मिकता (dhārmikatā) — MUST reuse baseline term exactly; NEVER धर्म. Critical risk (inherited from baseline): must not be heard as longing to accumulate personal merit/dharma through fasting-as-merit religious practice (a live parallel in vrata/fasting-for-merit traditions); this is hunger for a righteousness God supplies, both credited and consummated.
χορτάζω (pass.) chortazō to feed to fullness, satiate	complete satisfaction, often of feeding animals/crowds; here eschatological satisfaction will be filled, will be satisfied	God himself will satisfy this longing fully, partially now and completely at the consummation	तृप्त किए जाएंगे (tṛpta kie jāeṃge). Low-Medium risk.

Matthew 5:7

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐλεηθήσονται.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἐλεήμων / ἐλεέω eleēmōn / eleeō merciful / to show mercy	compassion actively extended toward the miserable or guilty merciful, compassionate; to have mercy	[BASELINE REUSE — Medium, ties to mercy दया] Mercy shown as the fruit of mercy already received from God, not a transaction that purchases divine mercy	दयावान (dayāvāna) / दया दिखाना — consistent with baseline दया entry. Medium risk: must not be read as merit-transaction reciprocity (karma-style “give mercy to get mercy”) but as the natural overflow of grace already received (cf. 18:21-35, the unforgiving servant).

Matthew 5:8

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ, ὅτι αὐτοὶ τὸν θεὸν ὄψονται.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
καθαροὶ τῇ καρδίᾳ katharoi tē kardia clean/pure in the heart	inner moral integrity and single-hearted devotion, contrasted with Pharisaic external ritual purity (cf. ch. 23) pure in heart, clean of heart	Undivided devotion to God from the inside out, resulting in the beatific vision of God (echoes Psalm 24:3-4)	मन के शुद्ध (mana ke śuddha) — the established BSI rendering. High risk — flagged for theologian adjudication: the baseline holiness entry explicitly reserves शुद्ध for ritual-purity contexts and prefers पवित्र for moral purity (see baseline holy/sanctification notes). Here, however, मन के शुद्ध is the entrenched Hindi Bible idiom for this specific Beatitude. Recommendation: retain मन के शुद्ध but attach a mandatory translator note anchoring शुद्ध explicitly to कारदिया/mind-heart (आंतरिक शुद्धता, internal integrity) and distinguishing it from बाहरी शुद्धता (external/ritual purity, e.g., achamana-style purification) — precisely the external purity Jesus critiques in ch. 23.
ὄψονται τὸν θεόν opsontai ton theon they will see God	the beatific vision — direct, relational sight of God, promised as the culmination of purity of heart will see God	Not a mystical merging with an impersonal Absolute (advaita-style vision/darśan of ultimate reality) but a personal, relational seeing of the one true God, who remains distinct from the seer	वे परमेश्वर को देखेंगे. High risk: must not be assimilated to दर्शन (a devotee’s visionary sight of a deity in Hindu bhakti practice) in a way that implies achieving this vision through devotional technique rather than receiving it as God’s gracious gift to the pure in heart; the seer remains a distinct person before a distinct, personal God.

Matthew 5:9

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί, ὅτι αὐτοὶ υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
εἰρηνοποιός eirēnopoios peacemaker	one who actively creates/restores peace, not merely avoids conflict peacemaker	Reflects God’s own reconciling character (cf. baseline reconciliation, मेल-मिलाप); active restoration of broken relationships	मिलाप करानेवाले / शान्ति स्थापित करनेवाले. Medium risk: must connect to मेल-मिलाप (reconciliation) rather than being flattened to mere non-violence/conflict-avoidance (a possible collision with Gandhian ahimsa framing) that lacks the relational, God-ward reconciling content.
υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται huioi theou klēthēsontai will be called sons of God	derivative, adoptive divine sonship granted to believers, not the unique eternal Sonship of Christ called children/sons of God	[BASELINE REUSE — ties to adoption दत्तक-पुत्रता, High] Peacemakers are identified as God’s own family for reflecting his character	परमेश्वर के पुत्र कहलाएंगे. High risk: must preserve the baseline’s firm distinction between परमेश्वर का पुत्र (Christ’s unique, Critical-risk title of eternal Sonship) and this derivative, adoptive sonship of believers; conflating the two would blur Christ’s unique deity.

Matthew 5:10

Greek: μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης, ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
διώκω (pass.) diōkō to pursue, persecute	hostile pursuit on account of identity or belief persecuted	Introduces “Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus” as a structural theme of the whole Gospel (10:16-23; 16:24-25)	सताए गए (satāe gae). Medium risk.
δικαιοσύνη dikaiosynē righteousness	[BASELINE REUSE — Critical] righteousness	Suffering specifically for kingdom-identity/righteousness, not generic suffering; the blessed status of v.3 (kingdom of heaven) brackets the whole unit, forming an inclusio	धार्मिकता — MUST reuse exactly. Critical risk (inherited).

Matthew 5:11

Greek: μακάριοί ἐστε ὅταν ὀνειδίσωσιν ὑμᾶς καὶ διώξωσιν καὶ εἴπωσιν πᾶν πονηρὸν καθ’ ὑμῶν ψευδόμενοι ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ὀνειδίζω oneidizō to revile, insult, reproach	verbal shaming/dishonoring, loaded in honor-shame cultures revile, insult	Anticipates honor/shame dynamics that intensify through the passion narrative	निन्दा करना / बुरा कहना. Medium risk — route for native-speaker review per honor/shame sensitivity (cf. baseline routing convention).
ψεύδομαι pseudomai to lie, speak falsely	deliberate falsehood, here false accusation falsely, lying	The persecution in view is unjust, based on lies — not deserved consequence for actual wrongdoing	झूठा कहकर (jhūṭhā kahakara). Low risk.
ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ heneken emou for my sake, because of me	shifts the ground of persecution from abstract “righteousness” (v.10) to explicit personal allegiance to Jesus for my sake, on my account	The decisive theological move of the unit: righteousness and allegiance to Christ personally are one and the same. Foreshadows the full cost-of-discipleship teaching (10:32-39; 16:24-26)	मेरे लिये (mere liye). High risk: this phrase must not be flattened into generic “for doing good”; it identifies Christian suffering specifically as suffering for Christ, which is the christological center the whole doctrine of discipleship depends on.

Matthew 5:12

Greek: χαίρετε καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε, ὅτι ὁ μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς· οὕτως γὰρ ἐδίωξαν τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς πρὸ ὑμῶν.

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
χαίρω / ἀγαλλιάω chairō / agalliaō to rejoice / to exult, be overjoyed	commanded joy, not mere feeling; ἀγαλλιάω often marks eschatological/worshipful exultation rejoice, be glad, exult	Joy commanded in the midst of persecution because of certain future vindication, not present circumstance	आनन्दित हो और मगन हो. Low risk.
μισθός misthos wage, reward, pay	a reward granted, but in Matthew’s theology consistently a gift of grace rather than a proportional wage (cf. 20:1-16, laborers in the vineyard) reward, wage, recompense	[NEW TERM] Must be read across the whole book in light of ch. 20’s parable, where the “wage” is disproportionate grace, not merit-based payment	प्रतिफल (pratiphala) or बड़ा मूल्य. High risk: प्रतिफल/wage-language risks a merit-transaction reading (कर्म-फल, “fruit of one’s deeds”) if isolated from ch. 20’s controlling parable, where the master gives the same wage regardless of hours worked. Every occurrence of μισθός in Matthew should carry a cross-reference note to 20:1-16 to block a karma-merit reading.
προφήτης prophētēs prophet	[BASELINE REUSE — Low] God’s OT spokesperson prophet	Persecuted disciples stand in continuity with the persecuted OT prophets — a legitimating, not novel, pattern	भविष्यद्वक्ता — reuse exactly. Low risk.

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CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ANALYSIS: Matthew 1–28

Chapter 1 — Genealogy and Birth of the Messiah

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
γένεσις genesis origin, genealogy, birth-record	book/record of origins, deliberately echoing Genesis (LXX Γένεσις) genealogy, genesis, account	Frames Matthew as a “new beginning” narrative rooted in, not replacing, Israel’s Scripture	वंशावली (vaṃśāvalī) / उत्पत्ति की पुस्तक. Low-Medium risk; the Genesis-echo should be flagged in translator notes though not doctrinally hazardous itself.
υἱὸς Δαυίδ huios Dauid son of David	messianic royal title claiming Davidic descent and covenant fulfillment Son of David	[NEW TERM] First of Matthew’s ~10 uses of this title (also 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30-31; 21:9,15; 22:42-45). Ties directly to baseline seed_of_david (दाऊद के वंश से) and davidic_covenant doctrine	दाऊद का पुत्र (Dāūda kā putra). High risk: must be understood as a royal-messianic authority claim fulfilling the Davidic covenant, not merely a genealogical footnote; consistent handling required with the baseline दाऊद के वंश से entry so readers connect this title across both Testaments.
Ἐμμανουήλ Emmanouēl ”God with us”	Isaiah 7:14 fulfillment name signifying God’s personal, incarnate presence Immanuel, God with us	Directly supports the incarnation doctrine (baseline देहधारण, Critical) — God himself personally present, not a temporary avataric appearance	इम्मानुएल (transliterated) — गाया गया अर्थ: “परमेश्वर हमारे साथ.” Critical risk: must be paired with baseline देहधारण term and its explicit rejection of अवतार; Immanuel signals permanent incarnate presence, not a periodic divine descent.
παρθένος parthenos virgin	a woman who has not had sexual relations; here specifically the virginal conception virgin	Grounds the miraculous, non-ordinary origin of Jesus’s human nature — genuinely human (not illusory, māyā-like) yet supernaturally conceived by the Holy Spirit, not through ordinary human paternity	कुँवारी (kuṅvārī). High risk: must affirm real, historical virginal conception (not myth/allegory) while affirming Jesus’s full and non-illusory humanity — guards against any docetic reading in either direction.
σῴσει (from σῴζω) sōsei he will save	root of Jesus’s own name (Yeshua = “YHWH saves”); rescue/deliverance by God from sin’s guilt and power he will save	The very name “Jesus” encodes the mission: saving his people from their sins, not from foreign oppression or systemic evil merely	वह उन्हें उनके पापों से बचाएगा — बचाना ties to baseline उद्धार (salvation). Critical risk: must retain “from their sins” as the object, not soften to a generalized deliverance/liberation (guard against मुक्ति/मोक्ष collision per baseline salvation entry).
ἄγγελος κυρίου angelos kyriou angel of the Lord	God’s messenger delivering direct revelation angel of the Lord	Distinguishes biblical angelic revelation from generic spirit/deity mediums	प्रभु का दूत. Low risk.

Chapter 2 — The Magi, Flight to Egypt, and the Fulfillment Formula

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
μάγοι magoi magi, astrologers/wise men from the East	Gentile scholars/astrologers who recognize and worship the newborn king wise men, magi	Gentiles are the first worshipers of the Messiah in Matthew — an early signal of the doctrine “The Kingdom of Heaven” opening to all nations (cf. Great Commission, 28:19)	ज्योतिषी / पूर्व से आए हुए ज्ञानी (jyotiṣī / pūrva se āe hue jñānī). Medium risk: ज्योतिषी (astrologer) could imply endorsement of astrology as a valid revelatory practice; render descriptively as learned men guided providentially by a star, without commending astrology as ongoing practice.
προσκυνέω proskyneō to bow down, worship, pay homage	ranges from mere obeisance to a superior to full worship of deity; context determines sense worship, bow down, pay homage	[NEW TERM, recurs throughout Matthew: 2:2,8,11; 8:2; 9:18; 14:33; 15:25; 20:20; 28:9,17] In the magi’s case and at 14:33/28:9,17, the sense rises to full worship of a divine person, not mere royal courtesy	दण्डवत् करना / आराधना करना. High risk: context must distinguish mere prostration before royalty (a culturally intelligible gesture in India) from full worship due to deity alone; the trajectory of the book (culminating in 28:9,17, where the risen Jesus receives worship without correction) is decisive evidence for the deity of Christ and must be rendered with आराधना (baseline worship term) at those climactic points.
πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν (fulfillment formula) plērōthē to rhēthen that what was spoken might be fulfilled	Matthew’s recurring citation formula (also 1:22; 2:15,17,23; 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:56; 27:9) introducing an OT quotation as historically fulfilled in Jesus this was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet	[NEW TERM] Central mechanism for the doctrine “Fulfillment of Old Testament Prophecy” — linear, one-time, historical fulfillment	ताकि…यह वचन पूरा हो जो…के द्वारा कहा गया था. High risk: must convey a single, linear, historical fulfillment event, never a cyclical or repeatable fulfillment pattern (guarding against a yuga-cycle framework in which prophetic/mythic events recur across ages); ties to baseline doctrine fulfillment_of_prophecy.
Ναζωραῖος Nazōraios Nazarene	resident of Nazareth; also echoes OT wordplay (netzer, “branch,” Isaiah 11:1) Nazarene	Ties Jesus’s obscure hometown to messianic prophecy of a humble, unexpected root	नासरी (Nāsarī). Low risk.

Chapter 3 — John the Baptist and the Kingdom at Hand

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
μετανοέω / μετάνοια metanoeō / metanoia to change one’s mind, turn around / repentance	[BASELINE REUSE — High] whole-life turning toward God repent, repentance	John’s message and Jesus’s own preaching (4:17) both open with this call, tightly linked to kingdom-of-heaven proclamation	मन फिराव / मन फिराओ — reuse exactly. High risk (inherited).
ἤγγικεν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ēngiken hē basileia tōn ouranōn the kingdom of heaven has drawn near	present-tense inbreaking, not merely future the kingdom of heaven is at hand/has come near	Announces the kingdom as imminently, presently arriving, not a distant future-only reality	स्वर्ग का राज्य निकट आ गया है. Critical risk (inherits from स्वर्ग का राज्य entry above): the present-tense immediacy must be preserved, resisting a purely future/afterlife reading.
Φαρισαῖος / Σαδδουκαῖος Pharisaios / Saddoukaios Pharisee / Sadducee	two first-century Jewish religious-political parties; Pharisees emphasized meticulous Torah observance and oral tradition, Sadducees denied resurrection and future life Pharisee, Sadducee	[NEW TERM] Recurring opponents throughout the book, central to “Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees”	फरीसी (Farīsī) / सदूकी (Sadūkī) — transliterated proper-noun terms. Low-Medium risk: must be introduced with brief explanatory notes on first use so Hindi readers unfamiliar with Second Temple Judaism grasp their role as respected religious authorities whose righteousness Jesus critiques as insufficient — not as generic “hypocrites” from the outset.
γέννημα ἐχιδνῶν gennēma echidnōn brood of vipers	strong rebuke idiom for spiritual danger masked by respectability brood of vipers, offspring of snakes	Sharp prophetic denunciation continuing OT prophetic-rebuke tradition	सांपों के बच्चे (sāṃpoṃ ke bacce). Low risk, though tone must remain forceful, not softened.
περιστερά / υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός peristera / huios mou ho agapētos dove / my beloved son	Spirit descending like a dove at Jesus’s baptism; Father’s voice declaring sonship dove; my beloved Son	[BASELINE REUSE — ties to Sonship of Christ doctrine, Critical] Trinitarian self-disclosure: Father, Son, and Spirit each distinctly present and active	कबूतर की तरह / मेरा प्रिय पुत्र. Critical risk: must be handled with the baseline त्रिएकता (Trinity) and परमेश्वर का पुत्र entries — three distinct, simultaneously active persons, never merged or sequential manifestations of one deity (guards against a Sabellian or avataric misreading).

Chapter 4 — Temptation and the Call of the First Disciples

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πειρασμός / διάβολος peirasmos / diabolos temptation / the devil, slanderer	personal spiritual testing by a personal evil being, not an impersonal moral struggle temptation; the devil, tempter	Jesus, unlike Israel in the wilderness, resists temptation by Scripture alone, modeling faithful sonship	परीक्षा / शैतान/इब्लीस—बेहतर दियाबुलुस/शैतान (Śaitāna). Medium risk: शैतान is well-established in Hindi Christian usage; must remain a personal malevolent being, not an impersonal principle of evil or illusion (māyā).
εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας euangelion tēs basileias gospel of the kingdom	[BASELINE REUSE — gospel सुसमाचार High, + NEW pairing with kingdom] the specific good news that God’s reign is breaking in through Jesus gospel of the kingdom	Ties baseline gospel term directly to the kingdom-of-heaven doctrine as one integrated announcement	राज्य का सुसमाचार. High risk (inherited from both गॉस्पेल and राज्य entries): must not be split into two separate ideas; it is one announcement.
ἀκολουθέω akoloutheō to follow, accompany	committed, costly following of a person, used throughout for discipleship follow	[NEW TERM] The verb form of discipleship, paired with चेला (disciple, noun); “leave everything and follow” defines the cost-of-discipleship doctrine from its first instance (4:20,22)	पीछे चलना / अनुगमन करना (pīche calanā). Medium risk: must retain the sense of costly, total allegiance (leaving nets, family, livelihood), not casual or partial association.

Chapter 5 (beyond the core passage, 5:13-48) — The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching and Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πληρόω (τὸν νόμον) plēroō to fulfill	bringing the Law and Prophets to their intended completion, not abolishing them fulfill (not abolish)	5:17 directly frames Jesus’s relationship to Torah — continuity through fulfillment, not replacement by an unrelated new system	पूरा करना (व्यवस्था को). High risk: व्यवस्था (baseline law term) must be retained; the fulfillment claim must avoid sounding like Torah is discarded (a Marcionite-adjacent error) or like Jesus institutes a rival “dharma” — ties to baseline law_of_christ caution from Galatians.
”ἠκούσατε … ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν” ēkousate…egō de legō hymin you have heard…but I say to you	the six Antitheses’ authority formula, setting Jesus’s own word alongside/above prior Torah-interpretation ”You have heard…but I say to you”	[NEW TERM] The clearest textual evidence in the whole Gospel for the doctrine “The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching” — Jesus speaks with an authority equal to or exceeding Moses himself	तुम ने सुना है…परन्तु मैं तुम से कहता हूं. Critical risk: this formula must be rendered so its unprecedented authority-claim is unmistakable — Jesus is not merely offering rabbinic interpretive commentary (a recognized genre) but issuing his own definitive word, a claim of divine authority requiring theologian review at every occurrence (5:21-22,27-28,31-32,33-34,38-39,43-44).
δικαιοσύνη ὑμῶν πλεῖον τῶν γραμματέων καὶ Φαρισαίων dikaiosynē pleion your righteousness exceeding the scribes and Pharisees	righteousness surpassing external legal compliance, addressing heart-motive, not merely act righteousness exceeding	5:20 is the doctrinal heading for the whole Sermon and for “Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees”	धार्मिकता (धार्मिकता …बढ़कर हो). Critical risk (inherits baseline धार्मिकता): this is not “more rule-keeping” but righteousness that penetrates to internal disposition (anger as murder, lust as adultery) — must not read as an escalated legalism/dharma-performance competition.
γέεννα geenna Gehenna, hell	the place/state of final divine judgment, from the Valley of Hinnom hell, Gehenna	Ties to the doctrine “Judgment and the End of the Age,” introduced here and developed through chs. 18, 23, 25	नरक (naraka). High risk: नरक in Hindu cosmology typically denotes a temporary punitive realm within the rebirth cycle; must be qualified where paired with αἰώνιος (eternal, ch. 25) to avoid a temporary-purgation reading; see eternal_punishment entry (ch. 25 below).
ὀφθαλμὸν ἀντὶ ὀφθαλμοῦ / ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθρούς ophthalmon anti ophthalmou / agapate tous echthrous eye for an eye / love your enemies	lex talionis (proportional retribution) explicitly superseded by the command to love enemies eye for an eye; love your enemies	Radical, counter-cultural ethic flowing from Jesus’s authoritative reinterpretation — grounded in reflecting the Father’s own indiscriminate kindness (5:45)	आँख के बदले आँख / अपने बैरियों से प्रेम करो. Medium-High risk: must not be softened into mere non-retaliation (Gandhian ahimsa framing lacking the positive, active love-command) — the command is to actively love, not merely to refrain from revenge.
τέλειος teleios complete, whole, mature, perfect	moral/relational wholeness reflecting God’s own character, not flawless sinlessness in a legalistic sense perfect, complete, mature	The Sermon’s closing summons (5:48) sets divine character, not Pharisaic rule-keeping, as the standard of righteousness	सिद्ध / खरा (siddha / kharā). High risk: सिद्ध in Hindu religious usage often denotes a spiritually perfected/liberated adept (a siddha) who has attained a state through practice; must be read here as relational wholeness/maturity reflecting God’s character, received and pursued by grace, not a self-attained perfected state.

Chapter 6 — Piety, Prayer, and the Lord’s Prayer

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἐλεημοσύνη eleēmosynē alms, charitable giving	giving to the poor, an expected pious act in Second Temple Judaism almsgiving, charitable giving	Jesus reframes giving as a matter of the heart done before God alone, not for human praise or merit-accumulation	दान (dāna). Medium-High risk: दान in Hindu religious practice frequently functions as a merit-generating act (accumulating puṇya); Jesus’s teaching that reward comes from a Father who sees “in secret” must be clearly distinguished from merit-store accounting — the reward is relational and gracious, not a ledger of accumulated merit.
νηστεία nēsteia fasting	abstaining from food as an act of piety/devotion fasting	Reframed, like almsgiving, as private devotion rather than public performance	उपवास (upavāsa). Medium risk: उपवास/vrat practices in Hindu tradition are often merit- or vow-oriented and socially visible (e.g., karva chauth); Jesus’s teaching subverts the performative/visible dimension specifically, not fasting itself.
Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς Pater hēmōn ho en tois ouranois our Father who is in the heavens	[BASELINE REUSE — पिता, Critical] intimate yet reverent address to the personal, transcendent God Our Father in heaven	The Lord’s Prayer models corporate, filial address to God, integrating baseline father/abba doctrine into daily piety	हमारे स्वर्गीय पिता / हे हमारे पिता जो स्वर्ग में है. Critical risk (inherited): must retain both intimacy (पिता) and transcendence (स्वर्ग में) without either collapsing into a merely impersonal cosmic principle or losing filial warmth.
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου hagiasthētō to onoma sou may your name be hallowed/sanctified	a petition that God’s name be honored as holy, ties to baseline holy (पवित्र) hallowed be your name	Prayer’s first priority is God’s own glory and holiness, not human need	तेरा नाम पवित्र माना जाए — पवित्र reused exactly from baseline. High risk (inherited).
ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου elthetō hē basileia sou may your kingdom come	petition for the consummation and present advance of God’s reign your kingdom come	Ties directly to the kingdom-of-heaven doctrine as an object of ongoing prayer, not merely a completed past announcement	तेरा राज्य आए. High risk (inherited from kingdom entries above).
ἄρτος ἐπιούσιος artos epiousios bread for today/for the coming day	daily material sustenance, trusting God’s provision one day at a time daily bread	Models simple trust in the Father’s provision, opposed to anxious accumulation (developed further later in ch. 6)	आज की रोटी / प्रतिदिन की रोटी. Low risk.
ὀφειλήματα opheilēmata debts	sins figured as a debt owed, forgiven as we forgive others’ debts debts, trespasses, sins	Forgiveness is reciprocally modeled — receiving and extending forgiveness in the same measure — anticipating ch. 18’s teaching	अपराध (aparādha) — established “trespasses/debts” rendering. Medium risk: must not be read as a karmic debt-ledger that self-balances; forgiveness flows from and mirrors God’s own prior forgiveness, granted by grace.
μαμωνᾷ mamōna mammon, wealth (personified)	wealth treated as a rival master/god demanding total allegiance mammon, money	”No one can serve two masters” — wealth as an idol competing with devotion to God	धन (dhana) / मायोन (transliterated). Medium risk: must retain the personification (wealth as a rival master), not flatten to a neutral discussion of money management.

Chapter 7 — Judgment, the Narrow Gate, and Authority

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
στενὴ πύλη stenē pylē narrow gate	a difficult, restrictive entrance contrasted with the easy, popular “wide gate” narrow gate, narrow door	The way of the kingdom is exclusive and demanding, not one equally-valid path among many	तंग द्वार (taṃga dvāra). High risk: in India’s pluralist religious environment, “many paths, one destination” is a widespread assumption (cf. baseline truth_of_the_gospel caution from Galatians); this verse’s exclusivity claim must not be softened.
ψευδοπροφήτης / καρπός pseudoprophētēs / karpos false prophet / fruit	one who claims prophetic authority falsely; fruit as observable outcome of one’s true nature false prophet; fruit (evidence)	“By their fruits you will know them” — an epistemological test for true versus false teaching	झूठा भविष्यद्वक्ता / फल — भविष्यद्वक्ता reused from baseline. Medium risk: फल here (evidence/outcome) must be distinguished from आत्मा का फल (baseline fruit_of_the_spirit, singular Spirit-produced character) — this is a different sense (observable moral/doctrinal outcome as a test), and translator notes should clarify the two uses are not identical.
ἐξουσία exousia authority, delegated power to act	inherent right and power to command, distinct from mere δύναμις (raw capability) authority	[NEW TERM] 7:29’s climactic statement — “he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes” — is the single clearest textual anchor for the doctrine “The Authority of Jesus’ Teaching”	अधिकार (adhikāra). Critical risk: अधिकार must convey Jesus’s own inherent, self-authenticating authority, contrasted explicitly with the scribes’ derivative authority from citing prior rabbinic tradition. This directly parallels the Galatians-baseline caution about guru/lineage-derived teaching authority (guru-paramparā) — Jesus’s authority is not derived from a chain of human transmission but is his own; mandatory theologian review.

Chapter 8 — Authority over Sickness and Nature; the Son of Man

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
λέπρα lepra leprosy	serious skin disease carrying ritual-impurity status under Torah leprosy	Jesus’s healing touch crosses a ritual-purity boundary without becoming impure himself	कोढ़ (koṛha). Low risk.
ἑκατόνταρχος / πίστις hekatontarchos / pistis centurion / faith	[BASELINE REUSE — faith विश्वास, High] a Gentile military officer’s trust in Jesus’s word alone, without physical presence centurion; faith	Foreshadows the doctrine “Universal Human Accountability”/gospel’s reach to Gentiles (baseline term) — faith, not ethnicity, is decisive	विश्वास — reused exactly. High risk (inherited).
υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου huios tou anthrōpou son of man	[NEW TERM] Jesus’s characteristic self-designation (first occurrence 8:20; ~30 uses total), rooted in Daniel 7:13-14’s exalted figure who receives an everlasting kingdom, dominion, and glory from the Ancient of Days Son of Man	Far more than an emphasis on Jesus’s mere humanity — a veiled claim to divine authority, future judgment, and an everlasting kingdom, alongside genuine human vulnerability (8:20, “nowhere to lay his head”)	मनुष्य का पुत्र (manuṣya kā putra). Critical risk: the phrase in ordinary Hindi could be flattened to mean simply “a human being,” losing the Daniel 7 allusion to a divinely-authorized, kingdom-receiving, judging figure. Mandatory translator note on first use (8:20) tying this title to Daniel 7 and to the later self-referential uses regarding suffering (16:21), authority to forgive sins (9:6), and eschatological glory (24:30; 25:31; 26:64). Theologian review required for every occurrence given its centrality to both the “Son of David/Messiah” and “Judgment and End of the Age” doctrines.

Chapter 9 — Authority to Forgive Sins; Tax Collectors and Sinners

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἐξουσίαν … ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας exousian aphienai hamartias authority to forgive sins	[NEW combination — reuses ἐξουσία, ch.7, and baseline sin पाप] claiming divine prerogative to forgive sin directly, not merely pronounce ritual absolution authority to forgive sins	9:6 extends the ἐξουσία doctrine into a direct deity-claim: only God forgives sin; Jesus does so on his own authority	पापों को क्षमा करने का अधिकार. Critical risk: must not be softened into a priestly-mediator’s ritual pronouncement (like a human intermediary declaring forgiveness on God’s behalf); the text claims Jesus personally holds and exercises this divine prerogative.
τελώνης / ἁμαρτωλός telōnēs / hamartōlos tax collector / sinner	social outcasts by profession or reputation, with whom Jesus deliberately shares table fellowship tax collector; sinner	”I desire mercy, not sacrifice” — Jesus’s table-fellowship enacts the doctrine that righteousness is for the spiritually needy, not the self-sufficient	चुंगी लेनेवाला / पापी. Medium risk: commensality (shared eating across social/purity boundaries) is a live social fault-line in the Indian context (cf. baseline hypocrisy entry’s commensality note from Galatians 2); Jesus’s example must retain its socially transgressive force.
νέος οἶνος / παλαιοὶ ἀσκοί neos oinos / palaioi askoi new wine / old wineskins	metaphor for incompatibility between the new reality Jesus brings and old religious forms/structures new wine and old wineskins	Signals that the kingdom Jesus brings is not merely a patch on existing Judaism but a genuinely new work requiring new capacity	नया दाखरस / पुरानी मशकें. Medium risk.

Chapter 10 — The Sending of the Twelve and the Cost of Discipleship

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἀπόστολος apostolos apostle	[BASELINE REUSE — प्रेरित, Medium] authorized, sent representative apostle	The Twelve receive delegated ἐξουσία (authority) to extend Jesus’s own kingdom-ministry	प्रेरित — reuse exactly. Medium risk (inherited).
πρόβατα ἀπολωλότα οἴκου Ἰσραήλ probata apolōlota oikou Israēl lost sheep of the house of Israel	mission scope initially restricted to Israel (later universalized at 28:19) lost sheep of the house of Israel	Salvation-historical sequencing: to Israel first, later to all nations — not a permanent restriction but a staged unfolding	इस्राएल के घराने की खोई हुई भेड़ें — इस्राएल reused from baseline. Medium risk: must be read alongside 28:19 so as not to be mistaken for a permanent ethnic restriction of the gospel.
σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ stauron autou his cross	[NEW TERM] first mention (10:38) of cross-bearing as a metaphor for costly, total allegiance, fully developed at 16:24 take up his cross	Introduces “Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus” in explicit cross-shaped terms, prior to the crucifixion itself	अपना क्रूस — क्रूस reused from baseline. High risk: must be understood metaphorically as self-denying allegiance even unto death, not a literal ritual object or merely “hardship” generically.
μισθός misthos reward	[NEW TERM, see also 5:12] grace-shaped reward for receiving/serving Jesus’s messengers reward	Reinforces that even small acts of hospitality toward Jesus’s representatives carry eschatological significance	प्रतिफल. Medium-High risk (see 5:12 entry; same karma-phal caution applies).

Chapter 11 — John the Baptist’s Question; Jesus’s Yoke

| Term | Transliteration | Literal | Semantic Range | English Variants | Theological Meaning | Hindi Rendering & Risk | |---|---|---|---||---|---| | ὁ ἐρχόμενος | ho erchomenos | the one who is coming | messianic title John’s question invokes — “are you the one to come, or shall we look for another?” | the one to come | Ties directly to “Jesus as the Promised Messiah” — Jesus answers with fulfillment evidence (11:4-5, echoing Isaiah) rather than a bare assertion | जो आनेवाला है. High risk: must be tied to the messianic promise doctrine, not read as a generic “coming one” without messianic freight. | | ζυγός μου | zygos mou | my yoke | metaphor of submission to a teacher’s instruction; contrasted with the burdensome yoke of Pharisaic law-interpretation | my yoke is easy | Deliberately echoes and inverts the “yoke of slavery” imagery (cf. baseline yoke_of_slavery entry from Galatians, दासत्व का जूआ) — Christ’s yoke, though real submission, is light because grace-empowered, not a heavier legal burden | मेरा जूआ आसान है — जूआ reused per baseline convention. High risk: must be explicitly contrasted with the heavy yoke of merit-based law-observance (scribal tradition, 23:4) rather than confused with the baseline’s negative “yoke of slavery”; Christ’s yoke is submission that is genuinely light because it rests on grace, not performance. | | πραΰς καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ | praus kai tapeinos tē kardia | gentle and humble/lowly in heart | Jesus’s self-description, directly linked to the Beatitude of 5:5 (πραΰς) | gentle and lowly in heart | Establishes Jesus himself as the model and source of the very meekness he blesses in the Sermon | नम्र और मन में दीन. Medium risk: नम्र consistent with 5:5’s rendering; दीन must again be guarded against a purely socioeconomic reading (see 5:3 note). |

Chapter 12 — Sabbath Controversies and the Unforgivable Sin

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
σάββατον / κύριος τοῦ σαββάτου sabbaton / kyrios tou sabbatou sabbath / lord of the sabbath	the weekly day of rest under Torah; Jesus claims sovereign authority over its interpretation and purpose sabbath; Lord of the Sabbath	Reinforces both ἐξουσία (authority) and κύριος (baseline lord प्रभु, Critical) doctrines together — Jesus outranks even a foundational Torah institution	सब्त का दिन / सब्त का प्रभु — प्रभु reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited from baseline lord entry): must convey supreme authority even over the Sabbath itself, not merely a lenient interpretive opinion about Sabbath rules.
βλασφημία εἰς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Ἅγιον blasphēmia eis to Pneuma to Hagion blasphemy against the Holy Spirit	deliberate, final rejection of the Spirit’s testimony to Christ, declared uniquely unforgivable blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable sin	[NEW TERM] The gravest sin-category in the book, tied to baseline pneumatology (पवित्र आत्मा, Critical) and to sin (पाप, High)	पवित्र आत्मा के विरुद्ध निन्दा. Critical risk: must be handled with extreme pastoral care and theologian review; must not be reduced to a generic serious sin nor be so alarmingly framed that anxious believers wrongly fear they have committed it — the sin is a settled, willful, final rejection, not a momentary doubt.
σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ sēmeion Iōna sign of Jonah	Jonah’s three days in the fish as a type of Jesus’s coming three days in the tomb before resurrection sign of Jonah	Ties directly to the resurrection doctrine (baseline पुनरुत्थान, Critical), predicted here in advance	योना का चिन्ह — पुनरुत्थान implied. High risk: the typological connection to bodily resurrection (not reincarnation) must be made explicit in translator notes.

Chapter 13 — The Parables of the Kingdom

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
παραβολή parabolē parable	an extended figurative illustration used to reveal kingdom truth to receptive hearers while concealing it from the hardened (13:10-17) parable	[NEW TERM] Jesus’s characteristic teaching mode for the kingdom-of-heaven doctrine throughout ch. 13 (sower, weeds, mustard seed, leaven, treasure, pearl, net)	दृष्टान्त (dṛṣṭānta) — consistent with baseline usage for Galatians’ ἀλληγορούμενα. Medium risk: must not license a general esoteric-allegory hermeneutic for Scripture at large (same caution as baseline allegory entry) — Jesus’s parables have a specific, recoverable, Spirit-given meaning, not an open-ended mystical/esoteric reading available to any interpreter.
μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας mystēria tēs basileias mysteries of the kingdom	[BASELINE REUSE — mystery भेद, Medium] a now-revealed secret of God’s kingdom-plan, disclosed to disciples, not esoteric hidden knowledge reserved for spiritual elites mysteries/secrets of the kingdom	The parables disclose what was previously hidden about how the kingdom advances (gradually, mixed with opposition, from small beginnings to great extent)	राज्य के भेद — भेद reused exactly. Medium risk (inherited): must not be conflated with esoteric gnosis attained through spiritual practice; these are disclosed by grace to those who receive Jesus, and concealed from the hard-hearted, not attained through initiation.
ζιζάνιον / σαγήνη zizanion / sagēnē weeds/tares / dragnet	agricultural and fishing metaphors for the mixed present state of the kingdom, to be separated only at final judgment weeds; net	Ties directly to “Judgment and the End of the Age” — the kingdom presently includes a mixture that God alone will finally sort	जंगली दाने (weeds) / जाल (net). Low-Medium risk.
συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος synteleia tou aiōnos the consummation/end of the age	[NEW TERM, recurs 13:39-40,49; 24:3; 28:20] the final, decisive close of the present age at Christ’s return end of the age	Central eschatological marker for “Judgment and the End of the Age”	जगत का अन्त / युग का अन्त (jagat kā anta). High risk: must be rendered as a single, final, linear consummation, not a recurring cyclical dissolution-and-recreation (pralaya/yuga-cycle pattern in Hindu cosmology).

Chapter 14 — Feeding of the 5,000; Walking on Water

No new load-bearing theological terms beyond those already analyzed (βασιλεία, πίστις, προσκυνέω at 14:33). One notable phrase: ὀλιγόπιστος (“of little faith,” 14:31) extends the baseline faith (विश्वास) entry — faith that is genuine but weak, not absent; reuse विश्वास with the qualifier अल्प विश्वास (alpa viśvāsa). Medium risk — must not suggest faith is being measured quantitatively as a merit-store, but qualitatively as trust that wavers yet remains real. Chapter otherwise reuses ch. 1-13 vocabulary (βασιλεία, πίστις, προσκυνέω at 14:33, the latter confirmed as full worship — “Truly you are the Son of God,” reinforcing the deity-of-Christ/sonship doctrines).

Chapter 15 — Tradition versus God’s Command; Faith of a Canaanite Woman

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
παράδοσις τῶν πρεσβυτέρων paradosis tōn presbyterōn tradition of the elders	oral interpretive tradition elevated by the Pharisees to rival/override God’s actual command tradition of the elders	Directly develops “Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees” — human tradition contrasted with God’s revealed word	बुज़ुर्गों की परम्परा (buzurgoṃ kī paramparā) — cf. baseline judaism_ancestral_traditions phrasing (बापदादों की परम्पराएँ). Medium risk: keep descriptive, not pejorative toward tradition per se; the critique is tradition overriding God’s command, not tradition as such.
κοινόω koinoō to defile, make common/unclean	ritual defilement reinterpreted by Jesus as originating from the heart, not external contact defile	Reinforces that moral impurity (from the heart) is what truly defiles, not ritual-external contact — directly relevant to Hindu ritual-purity/impurity assumptions	अशुद्ध करना — consistent with baseline sin entry’s distinction from अशुद्धता (ritual impurity). High risk: this passage’s whole point is to relocate defilement from external/ritual categories to internal moral ones; the translation must make this relocation unmistakable, given how naturally Hindi readers may map “defilement” onto ritual purity/impurity (shuddhi/ashuddhi) categories.

Chapter 16 — Peter’s Confession; Keys of the Kingdom; the First Passion Prediction

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
Χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος Christos ho huios tou theou tou zōntos the Christ, the Son of the living God	[BASELINE REUSE — messiah मसीह + son_of_god परमेश्वर का पुत्र, both Critical] Peter’s confession, the theological climax the whole first half of Matthew has been building toward the Christ, the Son of the living God	This confession is the hinge of the book: it is affirmed and immediately followed by the first prediction of the cross (16:21), tying messiahship inseparably to suffering	मसीह, जीविते परमेश्वर का पुत्र — both terms reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited, doubled): must retain full messianic and full divine-sonship force together, not split into two lesser separate claims.
κλεῖδας τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν kleidas tēs basileias tōn ouranōn keys of the kingdom of heaven	delegated authority to open/administer entrance into and governance of the kingdom community keys of the kingdom	[NEW TERM] Directly supports “The Church and Church Discipline” — delegated apostolic/ecclesial authority, not a private possession detached from the church’s ongoing life (cf. 18:18’s parallel grant to the gathered disciples)	स्वर्ग के राज्य की कुंजियाँ. High risk: must be read alongside 18:18 (where the same binding/loosing authority is given to the gathered disciples corporately) rather than isolated as an exclusive personal papal-style prerogative — an exegetically contested point the Hindi rendering should state literally, recording interpretive options as alternatives rather than resolving them in the text itself, per the baseline’s precedent for contested referents (cf. baseline israel_of_god entry).
δέω / λύω deō / lyō to bind / to loose	authoritative declaration ratified in heaven, of what is permitted/forbidden or forgiven/held bound in the believing community bind and loose	Establishes the church’s derived, heaven-backed authority for discipline and doctrine, exercised under Christ, not independently of him	बांधना / खोलना. High risk: must convey heaven-ratified, derivative authority (exercised by the church under Christ’s own authority), not an independent human power to create binding religious law.
σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ ἆρατω / ἀπαρνησάσθω ἑαυτόν stauron autou aratō / aparnēsasthō heauton let him take up his cross / let him deny himself	[NEW TERM, fuller development of 10:38] total, costly, ongoing self-renunciation in following Jesus, even unto death take up his cross; deny himself	The clearest single statement of “Discipleship and the Cost of Following Jesus”	अपना क्रूस उठाए / अपने आप का इन्कार करे. High risk: must not be softened into generic self-improvement or minor sacrifice; nor should “deny himself” collapse into an ego-dissolution/self-annihilation reading resembling advaitic loss of selfhood (cf. baseline christ_lives_in_me caution from Galatians) — the self remains a real self who chooses costly obedience, not a self that ceases to exist.
ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ psychēn autou his soul/life	the whole life/self, risked and found paradoxically through losing it for Christ’s sake soul, life	”Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” — a paradox of true selfhood found only in self-giving allegiance to Christ	प्राण / जीवन (prāṇa / jīvana). Medium-High risk: must not be conflated with a doctrine of losing individual selfhood into an impersonal whole (moksha-style dissolution); the “finding” is the true flourishing of a real, continuing personal self in relationship with Christ.

Chapter 17 — The Transfiguration

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
μεταμορφόω metamorphoō to be transformed/transfigured	visible, temporary manifestation of Jesus’s inherent divine glory was transfigured	Directly supports the deity-of-Christ doctrine — glory that was always his, briefly made visible, not newly acquired	रूपांतरित हुआ (rūpāntarita huā). High risk: this verb is the same root used for the baseline renewing_of_the_mind’s “transformed” (रूपांतरित, Romans 12:2); translator notes must distinguish this one-time visible manifestation of Christ’s own pre-existing divine glory from the believer’s ongoing moral transformation, so the two uses are not conflated.
”οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός … ἀκούετε αὐτοῦ” houtos estin ho huios mou ho agapētos…akouete autou this is my beloved Son…listen to him	[BASELINE REUSE — son_of_god, Critical] repeats and intensifies the baptismal declaration (3:17), now adding the authoritative command to listen to Jesus This is my beloved Son…listen to him	Directly reinforces both the Sonship-of-Christ doctrine and the authority-of-Jesus’-teaching doctrine together, from the Father’s own voice	यह मेरा प्रिय पुत्र है…इसकी सुनो. Critical risk (inherited).

Chapter 18 — The Church and Church Discipline; Forgiveness

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
μικρός (τῶν μικρῶν τούτων) mikros little one	vulnerable, humble believers (children or childlike disciples), deserving of special protection little ones	Anchors the doctrine “The Church and Church Discipline” in pastoral care for the vulnerable before any procedural correction is discussed	छोटों में से एक (choṭoṃ meṃ se eka). Medium risk.
ἐὰν ἁμαρτήσῃ εἰς σὲ ὁ ἀδελφός σου (18:15-17) ean hamartēsē eis se ho adelphos sou if your brother sins against you	the step-by-step procedure: private confrontation, then witnesses, then “tell it to the church,” then treat as an outsider if unrepentant church discipline procedure	[NEW TERM] The foundational biblical text for the doctrine “The Church and Church Discipline” — restorative in intent, escalating only upon persistent unrepentance	यदि तेरा भाई तेरा अपराध करे…कलीसिया को बता — कलीसिया reused from baseline. High risk: must preserve the graduated, restorative structure (private first, communal only as last resort) so it is not read as encouraging public shaming as a first step, nor as merely punitive rather than aimed at restoration (cf. baseline restore_gently entry from Galatians 6:1, which should be cross-referenced).
δέω / λύω (repeated, 18:18) deō / lyō to bind / to loose	[BASELINE-ADJACENT — see ch. 16] here granted to the gathered disciples corporately in the context of church discipline bind and loose	Confirms that the ch. 16 authority is exercised corporately by the church community, not merely by an individual office-holder, when acting under Christ’s authority in discipline matters	बांधना / खोलना. High risk (as in ch. 16).
ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά hebdomēkontakis hepta seventy times seven	hyperbolic idiom for limitless, ungrudging forgiveness seventy times seven, seventy-seven times	The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant grounds limitless forgiveness in the limitless forgiveness already received from God (echoing 6:12)	सतहत्तर बार / सात बार सत्तर गुणा. Low-Medium risk: must retain the “limitless” force of the idiom, not a literal ceiling of 490.

Chapter 19 — Marriage, Divorce, and Riches

No major new theological-risk terms beyond baseline reuse of κληρονομέω (inherit, cf. 5:5) and ζωὴ αἰώνιος (eternal life, [BASELINE REUSE from Galatians — अनन्त जीवन, High], first Matthean occurrence at 19:16,29). One notable new term:

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
κάμηλον διὰ τρυπήματος ῥαφίδος kamēlon dia trypēmatos rhaphidos a camel through the eye of a needle	hyperbolic idiom for the near-impossibility of self-reliant entry into the kingdom for the wealthy, apart from God’s own gracious enabling camel through the eye of a needle	”With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (19:26) — salvation is God’s gracious act, not humanly achievable by any means, wealth included	सूई के छिद्र में से ऊंट का निकलना. Medium risk: the punchline (19:26, divine grace alone accomplishes what is humanly impossible) must not be lost — this ties directly to the baseline grace doctrine’s anti-merit thrust.

Chapter 20 — The Laborers in the Vineyard; the Ransom

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἐργάτης … μισθός ergatēs…misthos laborer…wage	[NEW context for μισθός, controlling the whole book’s use of “reward”] identical daily wage paid regardless of hours worked, offending merit-based fairness expectations laborers; wages	The parable’s entire point is that the kingdom’s “reward” is disproportionate grace, not proportional payment for work performed — the definitive lens for reading μισθός everywhere else in Matthew (5:12; 6:1-18; 10:41-42)	मज़दूर…मज़दूरी/प्रतिफल. High risk: this passage must be flagged as the controlling text against any karma-phal (proportional-merit) reading of “reward” language throughout the entire book; theologian review recommended given its function as a doctrinal anchor.
λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν lytron anti pollōn a ransom in place of/for many	a price paid to secure release, here Christ’s life given as a substitutionary ransom ransom for many	[NEW TERM] One of the clearest atonement statements in Matthew — substitutionary, not merely exemplary, self-giving	बहुतों के छुटकारे के दाम में अपना प्राण देना — छुटकारा reused exactly from baseline redemption entry. Critical risk: absolutely NEVER मुक्ति/मोक्ष (per baseline salvation/redemption prohibitions); the “many” for whom Christ is ransomed, and the substitutionary “in place of” (ἀντί) sense, must both be preserved — this is Christ standing in the place of sinners, paying their release-price, not a generic act of liberation.

Chapter 21 — Triumphal Entry, Temple Cleansing, Parable of the Tenants

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ὡσαννά / βασιλεὺς… πραΰς hōsanna / basileus…praus ”save now!” (Hebrew acclamation) / king…humble	messianic royal acclamation citing Zechariah 9:9, deliberately fulfilled by a humble, donkey-riding king Hosanna; your king…humble	Direct fulfillment-of-prophecy moment identifying Jesus publicly as the promised Davidic king, in a paradoxically humble mode	होशाना (transliterated) / नम्र राजा — नम्र consistent with 5:5, 11:29. High risk: must connect explicitly to the fulfillment-formula doctrine and to Zechariah 9:9; the paradox (king yet humble/on a donkey) must not be flattened.
οἶκος προσευχῆς / σπήλαιον λῃστῶν oikos proseuchēs / spēlaion lēstōn house of prayer / den of robbers	citing Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11 together in the temple-cleansing rebuke house of prayer; den of robbers/thieves	Prophetic critique of corrupted worship, continuing the OT prophetic tradition Jesus fulfills and embodies	प्रार्थना का घर / डाकुओं की खोह. Medium risk.
λίθος ὃν ἀπεδοκίμασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες lithos hon apedokimasan hoi oikodomountes the stone which the builders rejected	citing Psalm 118:22, the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone the stone the builders rejected	[BASELINE-ADJACENT — cf. stumbling_stone ठोकर का पत्थर from Romans] Applies the rejected-cornerstone motif to Jesus’s rejection by Israel’s leaders and his consequent exaltation	जिस पत्थर को राजमिस्त्रियों ने निकम्मा ठहराया…कोने का सिरा हो गया. High risk: should be handled consistently with the baseline stumbling_stone entry so learners recognize the same OT motif recurring across Romans and Matthew.
ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἀρθήσεται…καὶ δοθήσεται ἔθνει hē basileia tou theou arthēsetai…ethnei the kingdom of God will be taken away…and given to a nation	[BASELINE REUSE — kingdom_of_god परमेश्वर का राज्य, Medium] judgment on unfruitful, unrepentant religious leadership, with the kingdom’s fruitfulness transferred to those who receive it (echoed later in the “nations” of the Great Commission) the kingdom of God taken and given to another	Requires the same careful, non-supersessionist handling the baseline documents for Romans 9-11 (partial_hardening, remnant, restoration) — a warning to unfruitfulness, not an ethnic replacement theology	परमेश्वर का राज्य — reused exactly. High risk (inherited): must be read in harmony with baseline partial_hardening/restoration entries; theologian review recommended to avoid a supersessionist misreading.

Chapter 22 — The Wedding Banquet; Render to Caesar; the Greatest Commandment

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
γάμος (τοῦ υἱοῦ) gamos wedding feast	parable of the invited guests who refuse and the unexpected guests who are gathered instead wedding feast/banquet	Continues the “kingdom given to another” theme (ch. 21) with the same non-supersessionist caution required	विवाह का भोज. Medium risk (same caution as ch. 21’s kingdom-transfer note).
κλητοί / ἐκλεκτοί klētoi / eklektoi called / chosen	[BASELINE REUSE — called बुलाए हुए / election परमेश्वर का चुनाव, both High] “many are called, but few are chosen” called; chosen	Ties directly to baseline divine-calling and election doctrines — sovereign, personal, non-karmic categories	बुलाए हुए / चुने हुए — reused exactly. High risk (inherited).
ἀγαπήσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου…καὶ τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν agapēseis kyrion ton theon sou…ton plēsion sou hōs seauton you shall love the Lord your God…and your neighbor as yourself	[NEW TERM] the Greatest Commandment, citing Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 together — the same Leviticus 19:18 citation the baseline documents at Galatians 5:14/Romans 13:9 greatest commandment; love God and neighbor	Summarizes “on these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” — Jesus’s own authoritative synthesis of Torah’s ethical core	तू प्रभु अपने परमेश्वर से प्रेम रखना…और अपने पड़ोसी से अपने समान प्रेम रखना. High risk: per the baseline’s shared-citation verbatim-match rule, the Leviticus 19:18 clause here MUST match the wording already established for Galatians 5:14/Romans 13:9 exactly; theologian review to confirm cross-curriculum consistency.
ὁ Χριστὸς…υἱὸς Δαυίδ…κύριον αὐτὸν καλεῖ ho Christos…huios Dauid…kyrion auton kalei the Christ…son of David…calls him Lord	[NEW combination of baseline terms] Jesus’s riddle (citing Psalm 110:1) showing that the Messiah, though David’s son, is also David’s Lord — implying deity the Christ…Son of David…calls him Lord	Directly supports both “Son of David” and deity-of-Christ doctrines together — messiahship that transcends mere human/royal descent	मसीह…दाऊद का पुत्र…उसे प्रभु कहता है — मसीह/प्रभु reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited, doubled).

Chapter 23 — Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ὑποκριτής hypokritēs hypocrite	[BASELINE-ADJACENT — cf. hypocrisy कपट from Galatians] one whose external religious performance masks internal corruption hypocrite	The culminating denunciation of externally correct but internally corrupt religion, the negative counterpart to “Righteousness Exceeding the Pharisees”	कपटी (kapaṭī) — consistent with baseline कपट. High risk: must retain full denunciatory force; risk of softening into a mild “inconsistent” rather than the harsh prophetic indictment the passage intends.
ῥαββί / πατήρ / καθηγητής (titles forbidden, 23:8-10) rabbi / patēr / kathēgētēs rabbi / father / instructor	Jesus forbids disciples from seeking these honorific titles for themselves, since God alone is ultimate Father/Teacher rabbi; father; instructor/teacher	Guards against hierarchical honorific titles becoming vehicles of spiritual pride within the church — directly relevant to caste/guru-honorific title dynamics in the Indian religious context	रब्बी / पिता / गुरु. High risk: गुरु especially carries deep reverential, near-absolute authority connotations in Indian religious culture; the passage’s warning against seeking such honorific status must be rendered with full force, flagged for native-speaker review given the honor/title-sensitivity of the Indian context.
τάφοι κεκονιαμένοι taphoi kekoniamenoi whitewashed tombs	outwardly beautiful, inwardly full of decay whitewashed tombs	Vivid image reinforcing the hypocrisy denunciation	पुते हुए कब्रों के समान. Low risk.

Chapter 24 — The Olivet Discourse: Signs of the End

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
παρουσία parousia coming, arrival, presence	technical term for Christ’s future, visible, personal return coming (of the Son of Man)	[NEW TERM] Central term for “Judgment and the End of the Age” — Christ’s own personal, bodily, visible return, not a symbolic or purely spiritual “coming”	आगमन (āgamana) — “मसीह का आगमन” (the coming of Christ). High risk: must be kept as a single, final, personal, visible historical event, distinct from any notion of a recurring divine avatar-descent (avatāra) appearing repeatedly across ages to restore dharma — this is Christ’s own singular return, not one of a series of periodic divine interventions.
ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται pseudochristoi kai pseudoprophētai false christs and false prophets	counterfeit messianic and prophetic claimants who will arise before the end false christs; false prophets	Reinforces messianic exclusivity — Jesus alone is the one true Messiah, guarding against a pluralist “many messiahs, many paths” reading	झूठे मसीह और झूठे भविष्यद्वक्ता — मसीह/भविष्यद्वक्ता reused exactly. High risk (inherited from messiah’s Critical status).
βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως bdelygma tēs erēmōseōs abomination of desolation	citing Daniel 9:27/11:31/12:11, a specific sacrilege desecrating the temple, a sign preceding great tribulation abomination of desolation	Ties directly to the fulfillment-of-prophecy doctrine, applying Daniel’s apocalyptic language to a concrete future/historical event	उजाड़नेवाली घिनौनी वस्तु. Medium-High risk: requires substantial explanatory background (Daniel context) for readers without OT literacy; theologically must remain a specific historical sign, not a vague symbol open to any interpretation.
τὴν ἡμέραν … οὐδεὶς οἶδεν tēn hēmeran…oudeis oiden that day…no one knows	the timing of Christ’s return is deliberately unrevealed, even to angels, known only to the Father no one knows the day or hour	Grounds the ethic of constant readiness (γρηγορεῖτε, “watch”) rather than date-setting or predictive calculation	उस दिन…कोई नहीं जानता. Medium risk: must discourage date-calculation speculation, a live temptation across religious traditions including some Indian astrological/prophetic practices.

Chapter 25 — Parables of Readiness and the Final Judgment

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
παρθένοι / νυμφίος parthenoi / nymphios virgins / bridegroom	Ten Virgins parable — readiness for the bridegroom’s (Christ’s) unpredictable arrival virgins; bridegroom	Reinforces watchfulness for the παρουσία (ch. 24) in narrative form	कुँवारियाँ / दुल्हा — कुँवारी consistent with ch.1’s virgin term. Medium risk.
τάλαντον talanton talent (a large unit of money)	Parable of the Talents — stewardship of entrusted resources/gifts, evaluated at the master’s return talents	Ties to spiritual-gifts stewardship (baseline आत्मिक वरदान) applied more broadly to entrusted responsibility, evaluated by faithfulness, not raw quantity	तोड़े / मुद्राएँ (talanton, transliterated as तलंत is also used). Low-Medium risk.
πρόβατα / ἐρίφια probata / eriphia sheep / goats	The Judgment of the Nations — final separation based on how “the least of these my brothers” were treated sheep; goats	Concrete outworking of “Judgment and the End of the Age” — genuine faith authenticated by compassion toward the vulnerable, not a separate means of earning salvation apart from faith (must be read alongside the whole book’s grace-through-faith framework)	भेड़ें / बकरियाँ. High risk: must be carefully framed so the judgment-by-works language here does not contradict the book’s grace framework; the sheep’s actions are the fruit/evidence of already-belonging to the King (“come, you blessed of my Father,” echoing 5:3-10’s beatitude language), not the meritorious cause of inheriting the kingdom.
κόλασιν αἰώνιον / ζωὴν αἰώνιον kolasin aiōnion / zōēn aiōnion eternal punishment / eternal life	[NEW TERM for punishment; ζωὴν αἰώνιον is BASELINE REUSE from Galatians, अनन्त जीवन, High] the same adjective αἰώνιος (eternal) applied symmetrically to both destinies in a single verse (25:46) eternal punishment; eternal life	The grammatical parallelism forces both punishment and life to share the same eternal, final, non-cyclical quality — a structurally load-bearing detail	अनन्त दण्ड / अनन्त जीवन — अनन्त जीवन reused exactly from baseline; अनन्त दण्ड newly coined in parallel. Critical risk: नरक/दण्ड must not be softened into a temporary purificatory suffering resembling some conceptions of naraka in Hindu cosmology (often temporary, within the rebirth cycle); the grammatical parallel with “eternal life” in the very same verse makes symmetrical eternality a load-bearing, non-negotiable feature of the text — if “eternal” is rendered inconsistently between the two clauses, the parallelism (and the doctrine of eternal judgment) collapses. Mandatory theologian review.

Chapter 26 — The Last Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal, and Trial

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
πάσχα pascha Passover	the Exodus-commemorating feast, whose lamb typologically anticipates Christ Passover	Frames Jesus’s death within Israel’s foundational redemption-narrative typology	फसह (phasaha) — established Hindi Bible term. Medium risk: requires OT background note (Exodus 12) for readers with low OT narrative literacy, per the baseline’s general audience caution.
τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ σῶμά μου touto estin to sōma mou this is my body	[NEW TERM] institution of the Lord’s Supper — Christ’s own body given for his disciples this is my body	Establishes the ongoing sacramental memorial at the heart of Christian worship, pointing to Christ’s substitutionary self-giving	यह मेरी देह है. Critical risk: must not be assimilated to Hindu prasad/offering categories (food ritually offered to and returned from a deity); here Christ himself is both the giver and the gift, given to, not received from, worshippers in a reciprocal exchange.
τὸ αἷμα μου τῆς διαθήκης to haima mou tēs diathēkēs my blood of the covenant	[BASELINE REUSE — covenant वाचा, High] Christ’s atoning blood establishing/ratifying the new covenant, echoing Exodus 24:8 and Jeremiah 31:31 my blood of the covenant	Ties Christ’s death directly to covenant doctrine — a new, better covenant inaugurated by his own blood, not a renewed old covenant merely	मेरा लहू जो वाचा का है — वाचा reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited): must connect explicitly to the baseline covenant/new-covenant framework, not read as a merely ritual blood-offering disconnected from covenant history.
ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεο�ῦ ho huios tou theou the Son of God	[BASELINE REUSE — Critical] the high priest’s direct question, “are you the Christ, the Son of God?” and Jesus’s affirmation under oath Son of God	The trial’s central charge is precisely this claim of divine sonship, for which Jesus is condemned — the whole Gospel’s central christological claim reaches its crisis point here	परमेश्वर का पुत्र — reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited).

Chapter 27 — Crucifixion and Burial

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
σταυρόω stauroō to crucify	[BASELINE-ADJACENT — cf. cross क्रूस] the verb form of the execution method to crucify	The historical means of Christ’s atoning death, central to every atonement doctrine in the curriculum	क्रूस पर चढ़ाना. Critical risk: consistent with baseline क्रूस noun usage; never सूली (per baseline cross entry).
Ἠλί Ἠλί λαμὰ σαβαχθανί Ēli Ēli lama sabachthani My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?	Aramaic cry citing Psalm 22:1, expressing the depth of Christ’s God-forsakenness in bearing sin My God, why have you forsaken me	Reveals the real, personal cost of substitutionary atonement — the Son experiencing the Father’s judicial abandonment on behalf of sinners, without ceasing to be the eternal Son	एली एली लमा शबक्तनी (transliterated), with translation: मेरे परमेश्वर, मेरे परमेश्वर, तू ने मुझे क्यों छोड़ दिया. Critical risk: must not be softened into mere physical agony-expression; this is a specific, weighty theological claim about the atonement’s cost, requiring careful handling so as not to imply any rupture within the eternal Trinity’s being (only in the Son’s experience of judicial forsakenness) — theologian review required.
τὸ καταπέτασμα ἐσχίσθη to katapetasma eschisthē the veil was torn	the temple curtain separating the Holy of Holies torn at Christ’s death the veil was torn	Signals direct access to God now opened through Christ’s death, ending the old sacrificial-mediation system — ties to baseline reconciliation and propitiation doctrines	परदा फट गया. High risk: must connect to the doctrine of direct, unmediated access to God through Christ, avoiding any implication that ritual mediation of any kind remains necessary.

Chapter 28 — The Resurrection and the Great Commission

Terms	Variants	Theological Meaning	Hindi Rendering & Risk
ἠγέρθη ēgerthē he has been raised	[BASELINE REUSE — resurrection पुनरुत्थान, Critical] bodily, historical, once-for-all resurrection he is risen	The climactic vindication of every messianic and divine-sonship claim in the book	पुनरुत्थान / वह जी उठा है — reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited): never पुनर्जन्म.
προσεκύνησαν αὐτῷ prosekynēsan autō they worshiped him	[NEW combination, climax of the προσκυνέω trajectory begun in ch. 2] the risen Jesus receives worship without correction or deflection — decisive evidence of full deity they worshiped him	The clearest narrative confirmation of the deity-of-Christ doctrine — a created being who accepted worship in Scripture would be committing/permitting idolatry; Jesus’s acceptance confirms his own deity	उन्होंने उसकी आराधना की — आराधना reused exactly from baseline (never पूजा). Critical risk: this is the decisive climax of the worship-trajectory tracked from ch. 2; must use आराधना, not पूजा, and the translator note should make explicit that a mere human or angelic being refusing such worship elsewhere in Scripture (e.g., Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9) throws into relief Jesus’s acceptance of it here.
πᾶσα ἐξουσία ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ [τῆς] γῆς pasa exousia en ouranō kai epi gēs all authority in heaven and on earth	[NEW combination — culminating use of ἐξουσία, ch. 7/9/12 established] universal, cosmic authority claimed by the risen Christ as the ground for the commission that follows all authority in heaven and earth	The Great Commission’s theological foundation: the church’s mission rests entirely on Christ’s own universal, already-possessed authority, not human strategy or institutional power	स्वर्ग और पृथ्वी पर सारा अधिकार — अधिकार consistent with ch.7 rendering. Critical risk: must convey truly universal (not merely regional or provisional) authority, grounding the entire missionary mandate; theologian review required given its foundational role for “The Great Commission” doctrine.
πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη poreuthentes mathēteusate panta ta ethnē go, make disciples of all nations	[NEW TERM] the central missionary mandate; μαθητεύω is the verb form of μαθητής (disciple, cf. 5:1) go and make disciples of all nations	Directly establishes “The Great Commission” doctrine as the book’s climactic charge, universalizing the mission beyond the ch. 10 restriction to “the lost sheep of Israel”	जाकर सब जातियों को चेला बनाओ — चेला reused consistently from 5:1. Critical risk: सब जातियों (all nations/ethnē — baseline अन्यजाति for Gentiles, but here the inclusive “all nations” including Israel) must retain full, unqualified universality, with no caste, ethnic, or national exclusion whatsoever — directly continuing the baseline’s universal_scope_of_gospel and unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrinal cautions.
βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος baptizontes…eis to onoma tou Patros kai tou Huiou kai tou Hagiou Pneumatos baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit	[BASELINE REUSE — baptism बपतिस्मा Medium; trinity त्रिएकता Critical; father पिता Critical; holy_spirit पवित्र आत्मा Critical] the explicit triune baptismal formula — one “name” (singular), three Persons named baptizing…in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit	The clearest single trinitarian formula in the Gospels; grounds baseline त्रिएकता doctrine directly in Jesus’s own words	पिता, पुत्र और पवित्र आत्मा के नाम में बपतिस्मा देना — all terms reused exactly. Critical risk (inherited, tripled): the singular “name” (नाम, not नामों) must be preserved to avoid implying three separate deities (a tritheistic misreading) while the three distinct Persons named must equally be preserved to avoid modalism/त्रिमूर्ति-style conflation (per baseline trinity entry’s explicit rejection of त्रिमूर्ति).
ἐγὼ μεθ’ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος egō meth’ hymōn eimi…heōs tēs synteleias tou aiōnos I am with you always, to the end of the age	[NEW combination — reuses συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος, ch. 13] Christ’s personal, ongoing presence with the church throughout the mission era, until the consummation I am with you always, to the end of the age	Bookends the Gospel with the Ἐμμανουήλ (“God with us”) promise of 1:23 — the risen, authoritative Christ remains personally present with his disciples in the mission	मैं सदा तुम्हारे साथ हूं, जगत के अन्त तक. High risk: should be explicitly tied by translator note back to इम्मानुएल (1:23) so readers recognize the Gospel’s structural inclusio — the same personal presence promised at the incarnation is renewed as the church’s abiding resource for the mission.

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Summary of Cross-Chapter Structural Observations

1. The kingdom-of-heaven vocabulary (स्वर्ग का राज्य) is the single highest-frequency, highest-risk new term in this curriculum, given the collision with स्वर्ग/svarga-loka concepts. It must be tracked and reviewed at every occurrence (32+ instances), consistent with the treatment the baseline gives स्वतंत्रता (freedom) in Galatians as “the single highest-stakes new term.”
2. μισθός (reward/wage) requires a book-wide consistency rule: every occurrence must be read through the controlling lens of the Laborers in the Vineyard (ch. 20) to prevent a karma-phal (merit-proportional) misreading.
3. προσκυνέω (worship/homage) tracks a deliberate narrative trajectory from ambiguous royal-homage gestures (ch. 2) to unambiguous, uncorrected worship of the risen Christ (ch. 28) — the clearest narrative argument for the deity of Christ in the whole book, and must be rendered with escalating clarity (आराधना, never पूजा, at the climactic points).
4. υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (Son of Man) and ἐξουσία (authority) together carry the weight of the “Authority of Jesus’ Teaching” and “Jesus as the Promised Messiah” doctrines and require theologian review at every occurrence.
5. Terms already fixed in the baseline Romans/Galatians translation memory (गॉस्पेल, अनुग्रह, विश्वास, धार्मिकता, उद्धार, पुनरुत्थान, प्रभु, परमेश्वर का पुत्र, देहधारण, त्रिएकता, पापी, वाचा, छुटकारा, कलीसिया, प्रेरित, व्यवस्था, कपट, दया, आराधना, बपतिस्मा, क्रूस, अनन्त जीवन, इस्राएल, दाऊद, इत्यादि) are reused without modification throughout Matthew; no chapter introduces a reason to deviate from them.

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Companion document: 08_core_glossary.md — full glossary table of every term identified above, with consolidated risk ratings.