Matthew 17:9

17:9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them,¹ “Do not tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”

Matthew 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,² I am with you³ always, to the end of the age.”⁴

¹tn Grk “Jesus commanded them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.

²tn The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has been translated here as “remember” (BDAG 468 s.v. 1.c).

³sn I am with you. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the prophecy that the Savior’s name would be “Emmanuel, that is, ‘God with us,’” (1:23, in which the author has linked Isa 7:14 and 8:8, 10 together) and it ends with Jesus’ promise to be with his disciples forever. The Gospel of Matthew thus forms an inclusio about Jesus in his relationship to his people that suggests his deity.

⁴tc Most mss (A^c Θ Ë¹³ Ï it sy) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of v. 20. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, no good reason exists for the omission of the particle in significant and early witnesses such as א A* B D W Ë¹ 33 al lat sa.