Discovery BoxMatthew 12:42 
Context12:42 The queen of the South 1 will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, 2 something greater than Solomon is here!
Matthew 13:23
Context13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” 3
Matthew 24:26
Context24:26 So then, if someone 4 says to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ 5 do not go out, or ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.
1 sn On the queen of the South see 1 Kgs 10:1-3 and 2 Chr 9:1-12, as well as Josephus, Ant. 8.6.5-6 (8.165-175). The South most likely refers to modern southwest Arabia, possibly the eastern part of modern Yemen, although there is an ancient tradition reflected in Josephus which identifies this geo-political entity as Ethiopia.
2 tn Grk “behold.”
3 tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).
4 tn Grk “they say.” The third person plural is used here as an indefinite and translated “someone” (ExSyn 402).
5 tn Or “in the desert.”
