Matthew 13:23

13:23 But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.” ¹ 

Matthew 27:3

Judas’ Suicide

27:3 Now when ²  Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus ³  had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

Matthew 27:9

27:9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah ⁴  the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel, ⁵ 

[13:23]  ¹ tn The Greek is difficult to translate because it switches from a generic “he” to three people within this generic class (thus, something like: “Who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one instance a hundred times, in another, sixty times, in another, thirty times”).

[27:3]  ² tn Grk “Then when.” Here τότε (tote) has been translated as “now” to indicate a somewhat parenthetical interlude in the sequence of events.

[27:3]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:9]  ³ tc The problematic citing of Jeremiah for a text which appears to come from Zechariah has prompted certain scribes to alter it. Codex 22 has Ζαχαρίου (Zacariou, “Zechariah”) while Φ 33 omit the prophet’s name altogether. And codex 21 and the Latin ms l change the prophet’s name to “Isaiah,” in accordance with natural scribal proclivities to alter the text toward the most prominent OT prophet. But unquestionably the name Jeremiah is the wording of the original here, because it is supported by virtually all witnesses and because it is the harder reading. See D. A. Carson, “Matthew,” EBC 8:562-63, for a discussion of the textual and especially hermeneutical problem.

[27:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “the sons of Israel,” an idiom referring to the people of Israel as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58).