Matthew 2:1

The Visit of the Wise Men

2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem ¹  in Judea, in the time ²  of King Herod, ³  wise men ⁴  from the East came to Jerusalem ⁵ 

Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ⁶  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 10:32-33

10:32 “Whoever, then, acknowledges ⁷  me before people, I will acknowledge ⁸  before my Father in heaven. 10:33 But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:35

12:35 The good person ⁹  brings good things out of his ¹⁰  good treasury, ¹¹  and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

Matthew 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹²  my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 24:1

The Destruction of the Temple

24:1 Now ¹³  as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings. ¹⁴ 

Matthew 24:27

24:27 For just like the lightning ¹⁵  comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

Matthew 24:39

24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. ¹⁶  It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. ¹⁷ 

Matthew 27:1

Jesus Brought Before Pilate

27:1 When ¹⁸  it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

² tn Grk “in the days.”

³ sn King Herod was Herod the Great, who ruled Palestine from 37 b.c. until he died in 4 b.c. He was known for his extensive building projects (including the temple in Jerusalem) and for his cruelty.

⁴ sn The Greek term magi here describes a class of wise men and priests who were astrologers (L&N 32.40).

⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁶ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

¹¹ tn Or “confesses.”

¹² tn Grk “I will acknowledge him also.”

¹⁶ tn The Greek text reads here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos). The term is generic referring to any person.

¹⁷ tn Grk “the”; the Greek article has been translated here and in the following clause (“his evil treasury”) as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).

¹⁸ sn The treasury here is a metaphorical reference to a person’s heart (cf. BDAG 456 s.v. θησαυρός 1.b and the parallel passage in Luke 6:45).

²¹ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

²⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

²⁷ sn The Jerusalem temple was widely admired around the world. See Josephus, Ant. 15.11 [15.380-425]; J. W. 5.5 [5.184-227] and Tacitus, History 5.8, who called it “immensely opulent.” Josephus compared it to a beautiful snowcapped mountain.

³¹ sn The Son of Man’s coming in power will be sudden and obvious like lightning. No one will need to point it out.

³⁶ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

³⁷ tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

⁴¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.