Matthew 7:9

7:9 Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Matthew 13:25

13:25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

Matthew 26:5

26:5 But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”

Matthew 27:56

27:56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


tn Grk “Or is there.”

tn Grk “sowed darnel.” The Greek term ζιζάνιον (zizanion) refers to an especially undesirable weed that looks like wheat but has poisonous seeds (L&N 3.30).

sn The suggestion here is that Jesus was too popular to openly arrest him.