Matthew 12:19

12:19 He will not quarrel or cry out,

nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

Matthew 12:24

12:24 But when the Pharisees ¹  heard this they said, “He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, ²  the ruler ³  of demons!”

Matthew 12:1

Lord of the Sabbath

12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His ⁴  disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat ⁵  and eat them.

Matthew 2:22-23

2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus ⁶  was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, ⁷  he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee. 2:23 He came to a town called Nazareth ⁸  and lived there. Then what had been spoken by the prophets was fulfilled, that Jesus ⁹  would be called a Nazarene. ¹⁰ 

¹ sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

² tn Grk “except by Beelzebul.”

³ tn Or “prince.”

⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁵ tn Or “heads of grain.” While the generic term στάχυς (stacus) can refer to the cluster of seeds at the top of grain such as barley or wheat, in the NT the term is restricted to wheat (L&N 3.40; BDAG 941 s.v. 1).

⁶ sn Archelaus took after his father Herod the Great in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness, so Joseph was afraid to go there. After further direction in a dream, he went instead to Galilee.

⁷ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.

⁸ sn Nazareth was a very small village in the region of Galilee (Galilee lay north of Samaria and Judea). The town was located about 15 mi (25 km) west of the southern edge of the Sea of Galilee. According to Luke 1:26, Mary was living in Nazareth when the birth of Jesus was announced to her.

⁹ tn There is no expressed subject of the third person singular verb here; the pronoun “he” is implied. Instead of this pronoun the referent “Jesus” has been supplied in the text to clarify to whom this statement refers.

¹⁰ tn The Greek could be indirect discourse (as in the text), or direct discourse (“he will be called a Nazarene”). Judging by the difficulty of finding OT quotations (as implied in the plural “prophets”) to match the wording here, it appears that the author was using a current expression of scorn that conceptually (but not verbally) found its roots in the OT.