Isaiah 33:24

33:24 No resident of Zion ¹  will say, “I am ill”;

the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.

Matthew 16:18

16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ²  will not overpower it.

Matthew 16:1

The Demand for a Sign

16:1 Now when the Pharisees ³  and Sadducees ⁴  came to test Jesus, ⁵  they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. ⁶ 

Matthew 3:15

3:15 So Jesus replied ⁷  to him, “Let it happen now, ⁸  for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John ⁹  yielded ¹⁰  to him.

[33:24]  ¹ tn The words “of Zion” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[16:18]  ² tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).

[16:1]  ³ sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

[16:1]  ⁴ sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.

[16:1]  ⁵ tn The object of the participle πειράζοντες (peirazontes) is not given in the Greek text but has been supplied here for clarity.

[16:1]  ⁶ sn What exactly this sign would have been, given what Jesus was already doing, is not clear. But here is where the fence-sitters reside, refusing to commit to him.

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”

[3:15]  ⁸ tn Grk “Permit now.”

[3:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:15]  ¹⁰ tn Or “permitted him.”