Matthew 4:2

4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. ¹ 

Matthew 12:40

12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish ²  for three days and three nights, ³  so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Matthew 22:46

22:46 No one ⁴  was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

Matthew 27:63

27:63 and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Matthew 17:1

The Transfiguration

17:1 Six days later ⁵  Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, ⁶  and led them privately up a high mountain.

Matthew 20:12

20:12 saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’

Matthew 24:36

Be Ready!

24:36 “But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven ⁷  – except the Father alone.

Matthew 26:2

26:2 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be handed over ⁸  to be crucified.” ⁹ 

Matthew 28:15

28:15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day. ¹⁰ 

Matthew 28:20

28:20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, ¹¹  I am with you ¹²  always, to the end of the age.” ¹³ 

Matthew 24:38

24:38 For in those days before the flood, people ¹⁴  were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

Matthew 26:29

26:29 I ¹⁵  tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit ¹⁶  of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Matthew 27:64

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ¹⁷  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[4:2]  ¹ tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”

[12:40]  ² tn Grk “large sea creature.”

[12:40]  ³ sn A quotation from Jonah 1:17.

[22:46]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.

[17:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “And after six days.”

[17:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “John his brother” with “his” referring to James.

[24:36]  ⁵ tc ‡ Some important witnesses, including early Alexandrian and Western mss (א*^,2 B D Θ Ë¹³ pc it vg^mss Ir^lat Hier^mss), have the additional words οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός (oude Jo Juios, “nor the son”) here. Although the shorter reading (which lacks this phrase) is suspect in that it seems to soften the prophetic ignorance of Jesus, the final phrase (“except the Father alone”) already implies this. Further, the parallel in Mark 13:32 has οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός, with almost no witnesses lacking the expression. Hence, it is doubtful that the absence of “neither the Son” is due to the scribes. In keeping with Matthew’s general softening of Mark’s harsh statements throughout his Gospel, it is more likely that the absence of “neither the Son” is part of the original text of Matthew, being an intentional change on the part of the author. Further, this shorter reading is supported by the first corrector of א as well as L W ˹ 33 Ï vg sy co Hier^mss. Admittedly, the external evidence is not as impressive for the shorter reading, but it best explains the rise of the other reading (in particular, how does one account for virtually no mss excising οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός at Mark 13:32 if such an absence here is due to scribal alteration? Although scribes were hardly consistent, for such a theologically significant issue at least some consistency would be expected on the part of a few scribes). Nevertheless, NA²⁷ includes οὐδὲ ὁ υἱός here.

[26:2]  ⁶ tn Or “will be delivered up.”

[26:2]  ⁷ sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.

[28:15]  ⁷ tc ‡ The word ἡμέρας (Jhmeras, “day”) is found after σήμερον (shmeron, “today, this [day]”) in some early and important witnesses (B D L Θ lat), but may be a clarifying (or perhaps redundant) note. The shorter reading (found in א A W 0148^vid Ë^1,13 33 Ï) is thus preferred. NA²⁷ includes the word in brackets, indicating reservations about its authenticity.

[28:20]  ⁸ tn The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has been translated here as “remember” (BDAG 468 s.v. 1.c).

[28:20]  ⁹ sn I am with you. Matthew’s Gospel begins with the prophecy that the Savior’s name would be “Emmanuel, that is, ‘God with us,’” (1:23, in which the author has linked Isa 7:14 and 8:8, 10 together) and it ends with Jesus’ promise to be with his disciples forever. The Gospel of Matthew thus forms an inclusio about Jesus in his relationship to his people that suggests his deity.

[28:20]  ¹⁰ tc Most mss (A^c Θ Ë¹³ Ï it sy) have ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”) at the end of v. 20. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, no good reason exists for the omission of the particle in significant and early witnesses such as א A* B D W ˹ 33 al lat sa.

[24:38]  ⁹ tn Grk “they,” but in an indefinite sense, “people.”

[26:29]  ¹⁰ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[26:29]  ¹¹ tn Grk “produce” (“the produce of the vine” is a figurative expression for wine).

[27:64]  ¹¹ tn Grk “him.”