Matthew 2:14

2:14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during ¹  the night, and went to Egypt.

Matthew 2:21

2:21 So ²  he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

Matthew 1:24

1:24 When Joseph awoke from sleep he did what the angel of the Lord ³  told him. He took his wife,

Matthew 20:17

Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

20:17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, ⁴  he took the twelve ⁵  aside privately and said to them on the way,

[2:14]  ¹ tn The feminine singular genitive noun νυκτός (nuktos, “night”) indicates the time during which the action of the main verb takes place (ExSyn 124).

[2:21]  ² tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s instructions.

[1:24]  ³ tn See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20. Here the translation “the angel of the Lord” is used because the Greek article (ὁ, Jo) which precedes ἄγγελος (angelos) is taken as an anaphoric article (ExSyn 217-19) referring back to the angel mentioned in v. 20.

[20:17]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[20:17]  ⁵ tc ‡ A number of significant witnesses (e.g., B C W 085 33 lat) have μαθητάς (maqhtas, “disciples”) after δώδεκα (dwdeka, “twelve”), perhaps by way of clarification, while other important witnesses lack the word (e.g., א D L Θ Ë^1,13). The longer reading looks to be a scribal clarification, and hence is considered to be secondary. NA²⁷ puts the word in brackets to show doubts about its authenticity.