Discovery BoxMatthew 3:3 
Context3:3 For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: 1
“The voice 2 of one shouting in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make 3 his paths straight.’” 4
Matthew 4:24
Context4:24 So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People 5 brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, 6 paralytics, and those possessed by demons, 7 and he healed them.
Matthew 11:21
Context11:21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! 8 Woe to you, Bethsaida! If 9 the miracles 10 done in you had been done in Tyre 11 and Sidon, 12 they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 11:23
Context11:23 And you, Capernaum, 13 will you be exalted to heaven? 14 No, you will be thrown down to Hades! 15 For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.
Matthew 12:11
Context12:11 He said to them, “Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?
Matthew 13:33
Context13:33 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with 16 three measures 17 of flour until all the dough had risen.” 18
Matthew 13:44
Context13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.
Matthew 24:43
Context24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief 19 was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
Matthew 25:10
Context25:10 But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then 20 the door was shut.
Matthew 25:24
Context25:24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,
Matthew 26:24
Context26:24 The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”
Matthew 27:9
Context27:9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah 21 the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel, 22
Matthew 27:60
Context27:60 and placed it 23 in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. 24 Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance 25 of the tomb and went away.
1 tn Grk “was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legonto") is redundant and has not been translated. The passive construction has also been rendered as active in the translation for the sake of English style.
2 tn Or “A voice.”
3 sn This call to “make paths straight” in this context is probably an allusion to preparation through repentance.
4 sn A quotation from Isa 40:3.
5 tn Grk “And they”; “they” is probably an indefinite plural, referring to people in general rather than to the Syrians (cf. v. 25).
6 tn Grk “those who were moonstruck,” possibly meaning “lunatic” (so NAB), although now the term is generally regarded as referring to some sort of seizure disorder such as epilepsy (L&N 23.169; BDAG 919 s.v. σεληνιάζομαι).
7 tn The translation has adopted a different phrase order here than that in the Greek text. The Greek text reads, “People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those possessed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics.” Even though it is obvious that four separate groups of people are in view here, following the Greek word order could lead to the misconception that certain people were possessed by epileptics and paralytics. The word order adopted in the translation avoids this problem.
8 sn Chorazin was a town of Galilee that was probably fairly small in contrast to Bethsaida and is otherwise unattested. Bethsaida was declared a polis by the tetrarch Herod Philip, sometime after
9 tn This introduces a second class (contrary to fact) condition in the Greek text.
10 tn Or “powerful deeds.”
11 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
12 sn Tyre and Sidon are two other notorious OT cities (Isa 23; Jer 25:22; 47:4). The remark is a severe rebuke, in effect: “Even the sinners of the old era would have responded to the proclamation of the kingdom, unlike you!”
map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
13 sn Capernaum was a town on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, 680 ft (204 m) below sea level. It was a major trade and economic center in the North Galilean region.
map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 C3; Map3 B2.
14 tn The interrogative particle introducing this question expects a negative reply.
15 sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Luke 10:15; 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).
16 tn Grk “hid in.”
17 sn This measure was a saton, the Greek name for the Hebrew term “seah.” Three of these was a very large quantity of flour, since a saton is a little over 16 pounds (7 kg) of dry measure (or 13.13 liters). So this was over 47 lbs (21 kg) of flour total, enough to feed over a hundred people.
18 tn Grk “it was all leavened.”
sn The parable of the yeast and the dough teaches that the kingdom of God will start small but eventually grow to permeate everything. Jesus’ point was not to be deceived by its seemingly small start, the same point made in the parable of the mustard seed, which preceded this one.
19 sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15.
20 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
21 tc The problematic citing of Jeremiah for a text which appears to come from Zechariah has prompted certain scribes to alter it. Codex 22 has Ζαχαρίου (Zacariou, “Zechariah”) while Φ 33 omit the prophet’s name altogether. And codex 21 and the Latin ms l change the prophet’s name to “Isaiah,” in accordance with natural scribal proclivities to alter the text toward the most prominent OT prophet. But unquestionably the name Jeremiah is the wording of the original here, because it is supported by virtually all witnesses and because it is the harder reading. See D. A. Carson, “Matthew,” EBC 8:562-63, for a discussion of the textual and especially hermeneutical problem.
22 tn Grk “the sons of Israel,” an idiom referring to the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58).
23 tc ‡ αὐτό (auto, “it”) is found after ἔθηκεν (eqhken, “placed”) in the majority of witnesses, including many important ones, though it seems to be motivated by a need for clarification and cannot therefore easily explain the rise of the shorter reading (which is read by א L Θ Ë13 33 892 pc). Regardless of which reading is original (though with a slight preference for the shorter reading), English style requires the pronoun. NA27 includes αὐτό here, no doubt due to the overwhelming external attestation.
24 tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).
25 tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”
