Discovery BoxMatthew 12:45 
Context12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so 1 the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”
Matthew 16:21
Context16:21 From that time on 2 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem 3 and suffer 4 many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, 5 and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Matthew 17:27
Context17:27 But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. 6 Take that and give it to them for me and you.”
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.
2 tn Grk “From then.”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.
5 tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
6 sn The four drachma coin was a stater (στατήρ, stathr), a silver coin worth four drachmas. One drachma was equivalent to one denarius, the standard pay for a day’s labor (L&N 6.80).
