Discovery BoxMatthew 2:7 
Context2:7 Then Herod 1 privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.
Matthew 17:19
Context17:19 Then the disciples came 2 to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”
Matthew 20:17
Context20:17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, 3 he took the twelve 4 aside privately and said to them on the way,
1 sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.
2 tn Grk “coming, the disciples said.” The participle προσελθόντες (proselqontes) has been translated as a finite verb to make the sequence of events clear in English.
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 tc ‡ A number of significant witnesses (e.g., B C W 085 33 lat) have μαθητάς (maqhtas, “disciples”) after δώδεκα (dwdeka, “twelve”), perhaps by way of clarification, while other important witnesses lack the word (e.g., א D L Θ Ë1,13). The longer reading looks to be a scribal clarification, and hence is considered to be secondary. NA27 puts the word in brackets to show doubts about its authenticity.
