Matthew 2:15
2:15 He stayed there until Herod 1 died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” 2
Matthew 12:39
12:39 But he answered them, 3 “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 13:35
13:35 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: 4 “I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.” 5
Matthew 13:57
13:57 And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”
Matthew 24:15
The Abomination of Desolation
24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation 6 – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
1 sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.
2 sn A quotation from Hos 11:1.
3 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.
4 tc A few important mss (א* Θ Ë1,13 33) identify the prophet as Isaiah, a reading that is significantly harder than the generic “prophet” because the source of this prophecy is not Isaiah but Asaph in Ps 78. Jerome mentioned some mss that had “Asaph” here, though none are known to exist today. This problem is difficult because of the temptation for scribes to delete the reference to Isaiah in order to clear up a discrepancy. Indeed, the vast majority of witnesses have only “the prophet” here (א1 B C D L W 0233 0242 Ï lat sy co). However, as B. M. Metzger points out, “if no prophet were originally named, more than one scribe might have been prompted to insert the name of the best known prophet – something which has, in fact, happened elsewhere more than once” (TCGNT 27). In light of the paucity of evidence for the reading ᾿Ησαΐου, as well as the proclivity of scribes to add his name, it is probably best to consider the shorter reading as authentic.
tn Grk “was spoken by the prophet, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legontos) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
5 sn A quotation from Ps 78:2.
6 sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167 b.c., the words of Jesus seem to indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but that there was (from Jesus’ perspective) still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in a.d. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age (cf. Mark 13:14, 19, 24; Rev 3:10).