Discovery BoxMatthew 5:18 
Context5:18 I 1 tell you the truth, 2 until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter 3 will pass from the law until everything takes place.
Matthew 5:29-30
Context5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell. 4 5:30 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 11:7
Context11:7 While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness 5 to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 6
Matthew 14:13
Context14:13 Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, 7 they followed him on foot from the towns. 8
Matthew 14:15
Context14:15 When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, “This is an isolated place 9 and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
Matthew 16:4
Context16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then 10 he left them and went away.
Matthew 18:9
Context18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have 11 two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell. 12
Matthew 21:2
Context21:2 telling them, “Go to the village ahead of you. 13 Right away you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.
Matthew 26:31
Context26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 14
Matthew 27:60
Context27:60 and placed it 15 in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. 16 Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance 17 of the tomb and went away.
1 tn Grk “For I tell.” Here an explanatory γάρ (gar) has not been translated.
2 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”
3 tn Grk “Not one iota or one serif.”
sn The smallest letter refers to the smallest Hebrew letter (yod) and the stroke of a letter to a serif (a hook or projection on a Hebrew letter).
4 sn On this word here and in the following verse, see the note on the word hell in 5:22.
5 tn Or “desert.”
6 tn There is a debate as to whether one should read this figuratively (“to see someone who is easily blown over?”) or literally (Grk “to see the wilderness vegetation?… No, to see a prophet”). Either view makes good sense, but the following examples suggest the question should be read literally and understood to point to the fact that a prophet drew them to the desert.
7 tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
8 tn Or “cities.”
9 tn Or “a desert” (meaning a deserted or desolate area with sparse vegetation).
10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
11 tn Grk “than having.”
12 tn Grk “the Gehenna of fire.”
sn See the note on the word hell in 5:22.
13 tn Grk “the village lying before you” (BDAG 530 s.v. κατέναντι 2.b).
14 sn A quotation from Zech 13:7.
15 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.
16 tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).
17 tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”
