Matthew 26:66

26:66 What is your verdict?” ¹  They ²  answered, “He is guilty and deserves ³  death.”

Matthew 10:21

10:21 “Brother ⁴  will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against ⁵  parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 26:38

26:38 Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”

Matthew 4:16

4:16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,

and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.” ⁶ 

Matthew 15:4

15:4 For God said, ⁷  ‘Honor your father and mother’ ⁸  and ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’ ⁹ 

Matthew 20:18

20:18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. ¹⁰  They will condemn him to death,

Matthew 16:28

16:28 I tell you the truth, ¹¹  there are some standing here who will not ¹²  experience ¹³  death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” ¹⁴ 

[26:66]  ¹ tn Grk “What do you think?”

[26:66]  ² tn Grk “answering, they said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:66]  ³ tn Grk “he is guilty of death.” L&N 88.313 states, “pertaining to being guilty and thus deserving some particular penalty – ‘guilty and deserving, guilty and punishable by.’ οἱ δὲ ἀποκριθέντες εἶπαν, ᾿Ενοχος θανάτου ἐστίν ‘they answered, He is guilty and deserves death’ Mt 26:66.”

[10:21]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[10:21]  ⁵ tn Or “will rebel against.”

[4:16]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Isa 9:1.

[15:4]  ¹⁰ tc Most mss (א*^,2 C L W 0106 33 Ï) have an expanded introduction here; instead of “For God said,” they read “For God commanded, saying” (ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ἐνετείλατο λέγων, Jo gar qeo" eneteilato legwn). But such expansions are generally motivated readings; in this case, most likely it was due to the wording of the previous verse (“the commandment of God”) that caused early scribes to add to the text. Although it is possible that other witnesses reduced the text to the simple εἶπεν (eipen, “[God] said”) because of perceived redundancy with the statement in v. 3, such is unlikely in light of the great variety and age of these authorities (א¹ B D Θ 073 Ë^1,13 579 700 892 pc lat co, as well as other versions and fathers).

[15:4]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16.

[15:4]  ¹² sn A quotation from Exod 21:17; Lev 20:9.

[20:18]  ¹³ tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

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

[16:28]  ¹⁷ tn The Greek negative here (οὐ μή, ou mh) is the strongest possible.

[16:28]  ¹⁸ 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]  ¹⁹ 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.