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 23:30
Context23:30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, 3 we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
Matthew 27:4
Context27:4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”
Matthew 27:6
Context27:6 The 4 chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”
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 tn Grk “fathers” (so also in v. 32).
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
