Matthew 1:17-18

1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, ¹  fourteen generations.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ²  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 16:21

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

16:21 From that time on ³  Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem ⁴  and suffer ⁵  many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁶  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Matthew 26:63

26:63 But Jesus was silent. The ⁷  high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, ⁸  the Son of God.”

[1:17]  ¹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[1:18]  ² tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).

[16:21]  ³ tn Grk “From then.”

[16:21]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:21]  ⁵ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

[16:21]  ⁶ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[26:63]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[26:63]  ⁵ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”