Matthew 11:6

11:6 Blessed is anyone ¹  who takes no offense at me.”

Matthew 24:46

24:46 Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work ²  when he comes.

Matthew 16:17

16:17 And Jesus answered him, ³  “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood ⁴  did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

¹ tn Grk “whoever.”

² tn That is, doing his job, doing what he is supposed to be doing.

³ tn Grk “answering, Jesus said to him.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of this phrase has been modified for clarity.

⁴ tn The expression “flesh and blood” could refer to “any human being” (so TEV, NLT; cf. NIV “man”), but it could also refer to Peter himself (i.e., his own intuition; cf. CEV “You didn’t discover this on your own”). Because of the ambiguity of the referent, the phrase “flesh and blood” has been retained in the translation.