Matthew 4:2

4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ¹ 

Matthew 14:25

14:25 As the night was ending, ²  Jesus came to them walking on the sea. ³ 

Matthew 25:6

25:6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’ ⁴ 

Matthew 12:40

12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish ⁵  for three days and three nights, ⁶  so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Matthew 2:14

2:14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during ⁷  the night, and went to Egypt.

Matthew 28:13

28:13 telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body ⁸  while we were asleep.’

Matthew 26:34

26:34 Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, ⁹  on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

Matthew 26:31

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:

‘I will strike the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”

² tn Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.

³ tn Or “on the lake.”

³ tc ‡ Most witnesses have αὐτοῦ (autou, “[with] him”) after ἀπάντησιν (apanthsin, “meeting”), a reading which makes explicit what is already implied in the shorter text (as found in א B 700). The translation likewise adds “him” for clarity’s sake even though the word is not considered part of the original text. NA²⁷ has αὐτοῦ in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.

⁴ tn Grk “large sea creature.”

⁵ sn A quotation from Jonah 1:17.

⁵ tn The feminine singular genitive noun νυκτός (nuktos, “night”) indicates the time during which the action of the main verb takes place (ExSyn 124).

⁶ tn Grk “him.”

⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

⁸ sn A quotation from Zech 13:7.