Discovery BoxMatthew 8:14 
Context8:14 Now 1 when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down, 2 sick with a fever.
Matthew 13:48
Context13:48 When it was full, they pulled it ashore, sat down, and put the good fish into containers and threw the bad away.
Matthew 15:29
Context15:29 When he left there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up a mountain, where he sat down.
Matthew 17:9
Context17:9 As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, 3 “Do not tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”
Matthew 20:20
Context20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor. 4
Matthew 27:40
Context27:40 and saying, “You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! 5 If you are God’s Son, come down 6 from the cross!”
Matthew 27:42
Context27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down 7 now from the cross, we will believe in him!
1 tn Grk “And.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.
2 tn Grk “having been thrown down.” The verb βεβλημένην (beblhmenhn) is a perfect passive participle of the verb βάλλω (ballw, “to throw”). This indicates the severity of her sickness.
3 tn Grk “Jesus commanded them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.
4 tn Grk “asked something from him.”
5 sn There is rich irony in the statements of those who were passing by, “save yourself!” and “come down from the cross!” In summary, they wanted Jesus to come down from the cross and save his physical life, but it was indeed his staying on the cross and giving his physical life that led to the fact that they could experience a resurrection from death to life.
6 tc ‡ Many important witnesses (א* A D pc it sy[s],p) read καί (kai, here with the force of “then”) before κατάβηθι (katabhqi, “come down”). The shorter reading may well be due to homoioarcton, but judging by the diverse external evidence (א2 B L W Θ 0250 Ë1,13 33 Ï lat) it is equally possible that the shorter reading is original (and is so considered for this translation). NA27 puts the καί in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.
7 tn Here the aorist imperative καταβάτω (katabatw) has been translated as a conditional imperative. This fits the pattern of other conditional imperatives (imperative + καί + future indicative) outlined by ExSyn 489.
