Matthew 1:11

1:11 and Josiah ¹  the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

Matthew 4:19

4:19 He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.” ² 

Matthew 9:27

Healing the Blind and Mute

9:27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, ³  “Have mercy ⁴  on us, Son of David!” ⁵ 

Matthew 12:14

12:14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate ⁶  him.

Matthew 14:28

14:28 Peter ⁷  said to him, ⁸  “Lord, if it is you, order me to come to you on the water.”

Matthew 25:11-12

25:11 Later, ⁹  the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’ ¹⁰  25:12 But he replied, ¹¹  ‘I tell you the truth, ¹²  I do not know you!’

Matthew 25:19

25:19 After ¹³  a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

Matthew 26:74

26:74 At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment a rooster crowed. ¹⁴ 

Matthew 27:27

27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence ¹⁵  and gathered the whole cohort ¹⁶  around him.

Matthew 28:12

28:12 After ¹⁷  they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

[1:11]  ¹ sn Before the mention of Jeconiah, several medieval mss add Jehoiakim, in conformity with the genealogy in 1 Chr 3:15-16. But this alters the count of fourteen generations (v. 17). It is evident that the author is selective in his genealogy for a theological purpose.

[4:19]  ² tn The Greek term ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpos) is used here in a generic sense, referring to both men and women, thus “people.”

[9:27]  ³ tn Grk “shouting, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[9:27]  ⁴ sn Have mercy on us is a request for healing. It is not owed to the men. They simply ask for God’s kind grace.

[9:27]  ⁵ sn There was a tradition in Judaism that the Son of David (Solomon) had great powers of healing (Josephus, Ant. 8.2.5 [8.42-49]).

[12:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “destroy.”

[14:28]  ⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[14:28]  ⁶ tn Grk “answering him, Peter said.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant and has not been translated.

[25:11]  ⁶ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[25:11]  ⁷ tn Grk “Open to us.”

[25:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “But answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.

[25:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[25:19]  ⁸ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:74]  ⁹ tn It seems most likely that this refers to a real rooster crowing, although a number of scholars have suggested that “cockcrow” is a technical term referring to the trumpet call which ended the third watch of the night (from midnight to 3 a.m.). This would then be a reference to the Roman gallicinium (ἀλεκτοροφωνία, alektorofwnia; the term is used in Mark 13:35 and is found in some mss [Ì^37vid,45 ˹] in Matt 26:34) which would have been sounded at 3 a.m.; in this case Jesus would have prophesied a precise time by which the denials would have taken place. For more details see J. H. Bernard, St. John (ICC), 2:604. However, in light of the fact that Mark mentions the rooster crowing twice (Mark 14:72) and in Luke 22:60 the words are reversed (ἐφώνησεν ἀλέκτωρ, efwnhsen alektwr), it is more probable that a real rooster is in view. In any event natural cockcrow would have occurred at approximately 3 a.m. in Palestine at this time of year (March-April) anyway.

[27:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “into their headquarters”; Grk “into the praetorium.”

[27:27]  ¹¹ sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

[28:12]  ¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.