Matthew 4:3

4:3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.” ¹ 

Matthew 27:60

27:60 and placed it ²  in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. ³  Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance ⁴  of the tomb and went away.

Matthew 28:2

28:2 Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord ⁵  descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

¹ tn Grk “say that these stones should become bread.”

² tc ‡ αὐτό (auto, “it”) is found after ἔθηκεν (eqhken, “placed”) in the majority of witnesses, including many important ones, though it seems to be motivated by a need for clarification and cannot therefore easily explain the rise of the shorter reading (which is read by א L Θ Ë¹³ 33 892 pc). Regardless of which reading is original (though with a slight preference for the shorter reading), English style requires the pronoun. NA²⁷ includes αὐτό here, no doubt due to the overwhelming external attestation.

³ tn That is, cut or carved into an outcropping of natural rock, resulting in a cave-like structure (see L&N 19.25).

⁴ tn Or “to the door,” “against the door.”

³ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.