Matthew 3:15
3:15 So Jesus replied 1 to him, “Let it happen now, 2 for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John 3 yielded 4 to him.
Matthew 5:16
5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:4
7:4 Or how can you say 5 to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
Matthew 15:28
15:28 Then 6 Jesus answered her, “Woman, 7 your faith is great! Let what you want be done for you.” And her daughter was healed from that hour.
Matthew 19:14
19:14 But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 8
Matthew 21:38
21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’
Matthew 24:15
The Abomination of Desolation
24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation 9 – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Matthew 27:43
27:43 He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now 10 because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”
1 tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”
2 tn Grk “Permit now.”
3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Or “permitted him.”
5 tn Grk “how will you say?”
6 tn Grk “Then answering, Jesus said to her.” This expression has been simplified in the translation.
7 sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.
8 sn The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. Children are a picture of those whose simple trust illustrates what faith is all about. The remark illustrates how everyone is important to God, even those whom others regard as insignificant.
9 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).
10 sn An allusion to Ps 22:8.