Discovery BoxMatthew 1:19 
Context1:19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, 1 was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her 2 privately.
Matthew 4:4
Context4:4 But he answered, 3 “It is written, ‘Man 4 does not live 5 by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” 6
Matthew 7:24
Context7:24 “Everyone 7 who hears these words of mine and does them is like 8 a wise man 9 who built his house on rock.
Matthew 7:26
Context7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Matthew 8:20
Context8:20 Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky 10 have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 11
Matthew 9:33
Context9:33 After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”
Matthew 10:35
Context10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
Matthew 11:8
Context11:8 What 12 did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? 13 Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings! 14
Matthew 12:10
Context12:10 A 15 man was there who had a withered 16 hand. And they asked Jesus, 17 “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” 18 so that they could accuse him.
Matthew 12:13
Context12:13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, 19 as healthy as the other.
Matthew 12:22
Context12:22 Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus 20 healed him so that he could speak and see. 21
Matthew 13:31
Context13:31 He gave 22 them another parable: 23 “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed 24 that a man took and sowed in his field.
Matthew 13:41
Context13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. 25
Matthew 16:13
Context16:13 When 26 Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, 27 he asked his disciples, 28 “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
Matthew 16:28
Context16:28 I tell you the truth, 29 there are some standing here who will not 30 experience 31 death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” 32
Matthew 17:9
Context17:9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, 33 “Do not tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”
Matthew 17:22
Context17:22 When 34 they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. 35
Matthew 19:5
Context19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 36
Matthew 20:14
Context20:14 Take what is yours and go. I 37 want to give to this last man 38 the same as I gave to you.
Matthew 20:28
Context20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom 39 for many.”
Matthew 21:28
Context21:28 “What 40 do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
Matthew 22:11
Context22:11 But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
Matthew 22:24
Context22:24 “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children 41 for his brother.’ 42
Matthew 24:27
Context24:27 For just like the lightning 43 comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.
Matthew 24:39
Context24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. 44 It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. 45
Matthew 24:44
Context24:44 Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. 46
Matthew 25:31
Context25:31 “When 47 the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
Matthew 26:2
Context26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over 48 to be crucified.” 49
Matthew 26:71
Context26:71 When 50 he went out to the gateway, another slave girl 51 saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”
Matthew 26:74
Context26:74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed. 52
Matthew 27:57
Context27:57 Now 53 when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. 54
1 tn Grk “husband.” See following note for discussion.
2 tn Or “send her away.”
sn In the Jewish context, “full betrothal was so binding that its breaking required a certificate of divorce, and the death of one party made the other a widow or widower (m. Ketub. 1:2; m. Sota 1:5; m. Git. passim…)” (R. H. Gundry, Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art, 21).
3 tn Grk “answering, he said.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the phrase has been changed for clarity.
4 tn Or “a person.” Greek ὁ ἄνθρωπος (Jo anqrwpo") is used generically for humanity. The translation “man” is used because the emphasis in Jesus’ response seems to be on his dependence on God as a man.
5 tn Grk “will not live.” The verb in Greek is a future tense, but it is unclear whether it is meant to be taken as a command (also known as an imperatival future) or as a statement of reality (predictive future).
6 sn A quotation from Deut 8:3.
7 tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.
8 tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.
9 tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.
10 tn Grk “the birds of the sky” or “the birds of the heaven”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated either “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context. The idiomatic expression “birds of the sky” refers to wild birds as opposed to domesticated fowl (cf. BDAG 809 s.v. πετεινόν).
11 sn Jesus’ reply is simply this: Does the man understand the rejection he will be facing? Jesus has no home in the world (the Son of Man has no place to lay his head).
12 tn Grk “But what.” Here ἀλλά (alla, a strong contrastive in Greek) produces a somewhat awkward sense in English, and has not been translated. The same situation occurs at the beginning of v. 9.
13 sn The reference to fancy clothes makes the point that John was not rich or powerful, in that he did not come from the wealthy classes.
14 tn Or “palaces.”
15 tn Grk “And behold.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
16 sn Withered means the man’s hand was shrunken and paralyzed.
17 tn Grk “and they asked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated. The referent of the pronoun (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
18 sn The background for this is the view that only if life was endangered should one attempt to heal on the Sabbath (see the Mishnah, m. Shabbat 6.3; 12.1; 18.3; 19.2; m. Yoma 8.6).
19 sn The passive was restored points to healing by God. Now the question became: Would God exercise his power through Jesus, if what Jesus was doing were wrong? Note also Jesus’ “labor.” He simply spoke and it was so.
20 tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Grk “demoniac, and he healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw.”
22 tn Grk “put before.”
23 tn Grk “He set before them another parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.
24 sn The mustard seed was noted for its tiny size.
25 tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”
26 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
27 map For location see Map1 C1; Map2 F4.
28 tn Grk “he asked his disciples, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has been left untranslated.
29 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
30 tn The Greek negative here (οὐ μή, ou mh) is the strongest possible.
31 tn Grk “will not taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).
32 sn Several suggestions have been made as to the referent for the phrase the Son of Man coming in his kingdom: (1) the transfiguration itself, which immediately follows in the narrative; (2) Jesus’ resurrection and ascension; (3) the coming of the Spirit; (4) Christ’s role in the Church; (5) the destruction of Jerusalem; (6) Jesus’ second coming and the establishment of the kingdom. The reference to six days later in 17:1 seems to indicate that Matthew had the transfiguration in mind insofar as it was a substantial prefiguring of the consummation of the kingdom (although this interpretation is not without its problems). As such, the transfiguration would be a tremendous confirmation to the disciples that even though Jesus had just finished speaking of his death (in vv. 21-23), he was nonetheless the promised Messiah and things were proceeding according to God’s plan.
33 tn Grk “Jesus commanded them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.
34 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
35 tn The plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) is considered by some to be used here in a generic sense, referring to both men and women (cf. NRSV “into human hands”; TEV, CEV “to people”). However, because this can be taken as a specific reference to the group responsible for Jesus’ arrest, where it is unlikely women were present (cf. Matt 26:47-56; Mark 14:43-52; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:2-12), the word “men” has been retained in the translation. There may also be a slight wordplay with “the Son of Man” earlier in the verse.
36 sn A quotation from Gen 2:24.
37 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
38 tn Grk “this last one,” translated as “this last man” because field laborers in 1st century Palestine were men.
39 sn The Greek word for ransom (λύτρον, lutron) is found here and in Mark 10:45 and refers to the payment of a price in order to purchase the freedom of a slave. The idea of Jesus as the “ransom” is that he paid the price with his own life by standing in our place as a substitute, enduring the judgment that we deserved for sin.
40 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
41 tn Grk “and raise up seed,” an idiom for fathering children (L&N 23.59).
42 sn A quotation from Deut 25:5. This practice is called levirate marriage (see also Ruth 4:1-12; Mishnah, m. Yevamot; Josephus, Ant. 4.8.23 [4.254-256]). The levirate law is described in Deut 25:5-10. The brother of a man who died without a son had an obligation to marry his brother’s widow. This served several purposes: It provided for the widow in a society where a widow with no children to care for her would be reduced to begging, and it preserved the name of the deceased, who would be regarded as the legal father of the first son produced from that marriage.
43 sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out.
44 sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.
45 tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”
46 sn Jesus made clear that his coming could not be timed, and suggested it would take some time – so long, in fact, that some will not be looking for him any longer (at an hour when you do not expect him).
47 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
48 tn Or “will be delivered up.”
49 sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.
50 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
51 tn The words “slave girl” are not in the Greek text, but are implied by the feminine singular form ἄλλη (allh).
52 tn It seems most likely that this refers to a real rooster crowing, although a number of scholars have suggested that “cockcrow” is a technical term referring to the trumpet call which ended the third watch of the night (from midnight to 3 a.m.). This would then be a reference to the Roman gallicinium (ἀλεκτοροφωνία, alektorofwnia; the term is used in Mark 13:35 and is found in some
53 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
54 sn Though some dispute that Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple of Jesus, his actions regarding Jesus’ burial suggest otherwise.
