Matthew 21:37

21:37 Finally he sent his son to them, ¹  saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Matthew 1:25

1:25 but did not have marital relations ²  with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named ³  Jesus.

Matthew 1:21

1:21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him ⁴  Jesus, ⁵  because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 17:15

17:15 and said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures ⁶  and suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire and into the water.

Matthew 21:5

21:5 “Tell the people of Zion, ⁷ 

‘Look, your king is coming to you,

unassuming and seated on a donkey,

and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’” ⁸ 

Matthew 1:23

1:23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him ⁹  Emmanuel,” ¹⁰  which means ¹¹  “God with us.” ¹² 

Matthew 2:15

2:15 He stayed there until Herod ¹³  died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.” ¹⁴ 

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. ¹⁵  No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides ¹⁶  to reveal him.

Matthew 16:13

Peter’s Confession

16:13 When ¹⁷  Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, ¹⁸  he asked his disciples, ¹⁹  “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

Matthew 16:28

16:28 I tell you the truth, ²⁰  there are some standing here who will not ²¹  experience ²²  death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” ²³ 

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 ²⁴  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, ²⁵  and when you get one, ²⁶  you make him twice as much a child of hell ²⁷  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 ²⁸  of the Power ²⁹  and coming on the clouds of heaven.” ³⁰ 

Matthew 24:30

24:30 Then ³¹  the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, ³²  and ³³  all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They ³⁴  will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven ³⁵  with power and great glory.

[21:37]  ¹ sn The owner’s decision to send his son represents God sending Jesus.

[1:25]  ² tn Or “did not have sexual relations”; Grk “was not knowing her.” The verb “know” (in both Hebrew and Greek) is a frequent biblical euphemism for sexual relations. However, a translation like “did not have sexual relations with her” is too graphic in light of the popularity and wide use of Matthew’s infancy narrative. Thus the somewhat more subdued but still clear “did not have marital relations” was selected.

[1:25]  ³ tn Grk “and he called his name Jesus.” The coordinate clause has been translated as a relative clause in English for stylistic reasons.

[1:21]  ³ tn Grk “you will call his name.”

[1:21]  ⁴ sn The Greek form of the name Ihsous, which was translated into Latin as Jesus, is the same as the Hebrew Yeshua (Joshua), which means “Yahweh saves” (Yahweh is typically rendered as “Lord” in the OT). It was a fairly common name among Jews in 1st century Palestine, as references to a number of people by this name in the LXX and Josephus indicate.

[17:15]  ⁴ tn Grk “he is moonstruck,” possibly meaning “lunatic” (so NAB, NASB), although now the term is generally regarded as referring to some sort of seizure disorder such as epilepsy (L&N 23.169; BDAG 919 s.v. σεληνιάζομαι).

[21:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “Tell the daughter of Zion” (the phrase “daughter of Zion” is an idiom for the inhabitants of Jerusalem: “people of Zion”). The idiom “daughter of Zion” has been translated as “people of Zion” because the original idiom, while firmly embedded in the Christian tradition, is not understandable to most modern English readers.

[21:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “the foal of an animal under the yoke,” i.e., a hard-working animal. This is a quotation from Zech 9:9.

[1:23]  ⁶ tn Grk “they will call his name.”

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

[1:23]  ⁸ tn Grk “is translated.”

[1:23]  ⁹ sn An allusion to Isa 8:8, 10 (LXX).

[2:15]  ⁷ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.

[2:15]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Hos 11:1.

[11:27]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ 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]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[16:13]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map1 C1; Map2 F4.

[16:13]  ¹¹ tn Grk “he asked his disciples, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has been left untranslated.

[16:28]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[16:28]  ¹¹ tn The Greek negative here (οὐ μή, ou mh) is the strongest possible.

[16:28]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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]  ¹¹ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:15]  ¹² tn Or “one proselyte.”

[23:15]  ¹³ tn Grk “when he becomes [one].”

[23:15]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13 (see also Matt 24:30).

[24:30]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ¹⁴ tn Or “in the sky”; the Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) may be translated “sky” or “heaven,” depending on the context.

[24:30]  ¹⁵ tn Here τότε (tote, “then”) has not been translated to avoid redundancy in English.

[24:30]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[24:30]  ¹⁷ sn An allusion to Dan 7:13. Here is Jesus returning with full authority to judge.