Discovery BoxMatthew 16:17 
Context16:17 And Jesus answered him, 1 “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood 2 did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
Matthew 16:27
Context16:27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. 3
1 tn Grk “answering, Jesus said to him.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of this phrase has been modified for clarity.
2 tn The expression “flesh and blood” could refer to “any human being” (so TEV, NLT; cf. NIV “man”), but it could also refer to Peter himself (i.e., his own intuition; cf. CEV “You didn’t discover this on your own”). Because of the ambiguity of the referent, the phrase “flesh and blood” has been retained in the translation.
3 sn An allusion to Pss 28:4; 62:12; cf. Prov 24:12.
