Matthew 14:34

14:34 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. ¹ 

Matthew 15:35

15:35 After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Matthew 5:5

5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Matthew 9:26

9:26 And the news of this spread throughout that region. ² 

Matthew 27:45

Jesus’ Death

27:45 Now from noon until three, ³  darkness came over all the land. ⁴ 

Matthew 2:21

2:21 So ⁵  he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

Matthew 10:34

Not Peace, but a Sword

10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring ⁶  peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

Matthew 25:18

25:18 But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

Matthew 10:29

10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? ⁷  Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ⁸ 

Matthew 13:5

13:5 Other ⁹  seeds fell on rocky ground ¹⁰  where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep. ¹¹ 

Matthew 13:8

13:8 But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Matthew 2:20

2:20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

Matthew 13:23

13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ¹² 

¹ sn Gennesaret was a fertile plain south of Capernaum (see also Mark 6:53). The Sea of Galilee was also sometimes known as the Sea of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1).

² tn For the translation of τὴν γῆν ἐκείνην (thn ghn ekeinhn) as “that region,” see L&N 1.79.

³ tn Grk “from the sixth hour to the ninth hour.”

⁴ sn This imagery has parallels to the Day of the Lord: Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Zeph 1:15.

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s instructions.

⁵ tn Grk “cast.” For βάλλω (ballw) in the sense of causing a state or condition, see L&N 13.14.

⁶ sn The penny refers to an assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest items sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.

⁷ tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”

⁷ tn Here and in vv. 7 and 8 δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁸ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

⁹ tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”

⁸ tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).