Matthew 1:22

1:22 This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

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 15:3

15:3 He answered them, ²  “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Matthew 16:20

16:20 Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ. ³ 

Matthew 19:11

19:11 He ⁴  said to them, “Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.

Matthew 19:22

19:22 But when the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he was very rich. ⁵ 

[4:3]  ¹ tn Grk “say that these stones should become bread.”

[15:3]  ¹ tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.”

[16:20]  ¹ tc Most mss (א² C W Ï lat bo) have “Jesus, the Christ” (᾿Ιησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, Ihsou" Jo Cristo") here, while D has “Christ Jesus” (ὁ Χριστὸς ᾿Ιησοῦς). On the one hand, this is a much harder reading than the mere Χριστός, because the name Jesus was already well known for the disciples’ master – both to them and to others. Whether he was the Messiah is the real focus of the passage. But this is surely too hard a reading: There are no other texts in which the Lord tells his disciples not to disclose his personal name. Further, it is plainly a motivated reading in that scribes had the proclivity to add ᾿Ιησοῦς to Χριστός or to κύριος (kurio", “Lord”), regardless of whether such was appropriate to the context. In this instance it clearly is not, and it only reveals that scribes sometimes, if not often, did not think about the larger interpretive consequences of their alterations to the text. Further, the shorter reading is well supported by א* B L Δ Θ Ë^1,13 565 700 1424 al it sa.

[19:11]  ¹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[19:22]  ¹ tn Grk “he had many possessions.” This term (κτῆμα, kthma) is often used for land as a possession.