Discovery BoxMatthew 18:8 
Context18:8 If 1 your hand or your foot causes you to sin, 2 cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have 3 two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
Matthew 27:64
Context27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body 4 and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
2 sn In Greek there is a wordplay that is difficult to reproduce in English here. The verb translated “causes…to sin” (σκανδαλίζω, skandalizw) comes from the same root as the word translated “stumbling blocks” (σκάνδαλον, skandalon) in the previous verse.
3 tn Grk “than having.”
4 tn Grk “him.”
