Matthew 21:45

21:45 When ¹  the chief priests and the Pharisees ²  heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

Matthew 22:31

22:31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, ³ 

Matthew 22:42

22:42 “What do you think about the Christ? ⁴  Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.” ⁵ 

Matthew 26:28

26:28 for this is my blood, the blood ⁶  of the covenant, ⁷  that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

[21:45]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[21:45]  ² sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

[22:31]  ³ tn Grk “spoken to you by God, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legontos) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[22:42]  ⁵ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[22:42]  ⁶ sn It was a common belief in Judaism that Messiah would be the son of David in that he would come from the lineage of David. On this point the Pharisees agreed and were correct. But their understanding was nonetheless incomplete, for Messiah is also David’s Lord. With this statement Jesus was affirming that, as the Messiah, he is both God and man.

[26:28]  ⁷ tn Grk “for this is my blood of the covenant that is poured out for many.” In order to avoid confusion about which is poured out, the translation supplies “blood” twice so that the following phrase clearly modifies “blood,” not “covenant.”

[26:28]  ⁸ tc Although most witnesses read καινῆς (kainhs, “new”) here, this is evidently motivated by the parallel in Luke 22:20. Apart from the possibility of homoioteleuton, there is no good reason for the shorter reading to have arisen later on. But since it is found in such good and diverse witnesses (e.g., Ì^37,45vid א B L Z Θ 0298^vid 33 pc mae), the likelihood of homoioteleuton becomes rather remote.