Discovery BoxMatthew 12:37 
Context12:37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Matthew 22:15
ContextPaying Taxes to Caesar
22:15 Then the Pharisees 1 went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words. 2
Matthew 24:35
Context24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 3
1 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
2 tn Grk “trap him in word.”
3 sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.
