Matthew 13:30
Context13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At 1 harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then 2 gather 3 the wheat into my barn.”’”
Matthew 24:43
Context24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief 4 was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 26:39
Context26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, 5 “My Father, if possible, 6 let this cup 7 pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “but.”
3 tn Grk “burned, but gather.”
4 sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15.
5 tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
6 tn Grk “if it is possible.”
7 sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.