Matthew 1:23

1:23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him ¹  Emmanuel,” ²  which means ³  “God with us.” ⁴ 

Matthew 2:15

2:15 He stayed there until Herod ⁵  died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” ⁶ 

Matthew 10:37

10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 11:27

11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. ⁷  No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides ⁸  to reveal him.

Matthew 16:13

Peter’s Confession

16:13 When ⁹  Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, ¹⁰  he asked his disciples, ¹¹  “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

Matthew 16:28

16:28 I tell you the truth, ¹²  there are some standing here who will not ¹³  experience ¹⁴  death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” ¹⁵ 

Matthew 21:38

21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

Matthew 23:15

23:15 “Woe to you, experts in the law ¹⁶  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ¹⁷  and when you get one, ¹⁸  you make him twice as much a child of hell ¹⁹  as yourselves!

Matthew 26:64

26:64 Jesus said to him, “You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand ²⁰  of the Power ²¹  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ²² 

[1:23]  ¹ tn Grk “they will call his name.”

[1:23]  ² sn A quotation from Isa 7:14.

[1:23]  ³ tn Grk “is translated.”

[1:23]  ⁴ sn An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).

[2:15]  ⁵ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.

[2:15]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Hos 11:1.

[11:27]  ⁹ sn This verse has been noted for its conceptual similarity to teaching in John’s Gospel (10:15; 17:2). The authority of the Son and the Father are totally intertwined.

[11:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “wishes”; or “intends”; or “plans” (cf. BDAG 182 s.v. βούλομαι 2.b). Here it is the Son who has sovereignty.

[16:13]  ¹³ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[16:13]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map1 C1; Map2 F4.

[16:13]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “he asked his disciples, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has been left untranslated.

[16:28]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[16:28]  ¹⁸ tn The Greek negative here (οὐ μή, ou mh) is the strongest possible.

[16:28]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “will not taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).

[16:28]  ²⁰ sn Several suggestions have been made as to the referent for the phrase the Son of Man coming in his kingdom: (1) the transfiguration itself, which immediately follows in the narrative; (2) Jesus’ resurrection and ascension; (3) the coming of the Spirit; (4) Christ’s role in the Church; (5) the destruction of Jerusalem; (6) Jesus’ second coming and the establishment of the kingdom. The reference to six days later in 17:1 seems to indicate that Matthew had the transfiguration in mind insofar as it was a substantial prefiguring of the consummation of the kingdom (although this interpretation is not without its problems). As such, the transfiguration would be a tremendous confirmation to the disciples that even though Jesus had just finished speaking of his death (in vv. 21-23), he was nonetheless the promised Messiah and things were proceeding according to God’s plan.

[23:15]  ²¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ²² tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ²³ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ²⁴ tn Grk “a son of Gehenna.” Expressions constructed with υἱός (Juios) followed by a genitive of class or kind denote a person belonging to the class or kind specified by the following genitive (L&N 9.4). Thus the phrase here means “a person who belongs to hell.”

[26:64]  ²⁵ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1. This is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[26:64]  ²⁶ sn The expression the right hand of the Power is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

[26:64]  ²⁷ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).