Discovery BoxMatthew 3:12 
Context3:12 His winnowing fork 1 is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, 2 but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.” 3
Matthew 5:30
Context5:30 If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
Matthew 9:18
Context9:18 As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.”
Matthew 10:19
Context10:19 Whenever 4 they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, 5 for what you should say will be given to you at that time. 6
Matthew 20:21
Context20:21 He said to her, “What do you want?” She replied, 7 “Permit 8 these two sons of mine to sit, one at your 9 right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”
Matthew 22:13
Context22:13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
Matthew 26:64
Context26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand 10 of the Power 11 and coming on the clouds of heaven.” 12
Matthew 27:29
Context27:29 and after braiding 13 a crown of thorns, 14 they put it on his head. They 15 put a staff 16 in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: 17 “Hail, king of the Jews!” 18
1 sn A winnowing fork was a pitchfork-like tool used to toss threshed grain in the air so that the wind blew away the chaff, leaving the grain to fall to the ground. The note of purging is highlighted by the use of imagery involving sifting though threshed grain for the useful kernels.
2 tn Or “granary,” “barn” (referring to a building used to store a farm’s produce rather than a building to house livestock).
3 sn The image of fire that cannot be extinguished is from the OT: Job 20:26; Isa 34:8-10; 66:24.
4 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
5 tn Grk “how or what you might speak.”
6 tn Grk “in that hour.”
7 tn Grk “said to him.”
8 tn Grk “Say that.”
9 tc A majority of witnesses read σου (sou, “your”) here, perhaps for clarification. At the same time, it is possible that the pronoun dropped out through haplography or was excised because of perceived redundancy (there are two other such pronouns in the verse) by א B. Either way, the translation adds it due to the requirements of English style. NA27 includes σου here.
10 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.
11 sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.
12 sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).
13 tn Or “weaving.”
14 sn The crown may have been made from palm spines or some other thorny plant common in Israel. In placing the crown of thorns on his head, the soldiers were unwittingly symbolizing God’s curse on humanity (cf. Gen 3:18) being placed on Jesus. Their purpose would have been to mock Jesus’ claim to be a king; the crown of thorns would have represented the “radiant corona” portrayed on the heads of rulers on coins and other artifacts in the 1st century.
15 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
16 tn Or “a reed.” The Greek term can mean either “staff” or “reed.” See BDAG 502 s.v. κάλαμος 2.
17 tn Grk “they mocked him, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant and has not been translated.
18 tn Or “Long live the King of the Jews!”
sn The statement Hail, King of the Jews! is a mockery patterned after the Romans’ cry of Ave, Caesar (“Hail, Caesar!”).
