Matthew 15:32

The Feeding of the Four Thousand

15:32 Then Jesus called the ¹  disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”

Matthew 16:21

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

16:21 From that time on ²  Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem ³  and suffer ⁴  many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁵  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Matthew 27:64

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ⁶  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

¹ tc ‡ Although the external evidence is not great (א W Θ 700 pc), the internal evidence for the omission of αὐτοῦ (autou, “his”) after “disciples” is fairly strong. The pronoun may have been added by way of clarification. NA²⁷, however, includes the pronoun, on the basis of the much stronger external evidence.

² tn Grk “From then.”

³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

⁵ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

³ tn Grk “him.”