Matthew 11:22

11:22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

Matthew 11:24

11:24 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom ¹  on the day of judgment than for you!”

Matthew 18:7

18:7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It ²  is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Matthew 26:39

26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ³  “My Father, if possible, ⁴  let this cup ⁵  pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

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 ⁶  of the Power ⁷  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ⁸ 

[11:24]  ¹ sn The allusion to Sodom, the most wicked of OT cities from Gen 19:1-29, shows that to reject the current message is even more serious, and will result in more severe punishment, than the worst sins of the old era. The phrase region of Sodom is in emphatic position in the Greek text.

[18:7]  ¹ tn Grk “For it.” Here γάρ (gar) has not been translated.

[26:39]  ¹ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[26:39]  ² tn Grk “if it is possible.”

[26:39]  ³ sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.

[26:64]  ¹ 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]  ² 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]  ³ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).