Discovery BoxMatthew 4:2
Context4:2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished. 1
Matthew 14:25
Context14:25 As the night was ending, 2 Jesus came to them walking on the sea. 3
Matthew 25:6
Context25:6 But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.’ 4
Matthew 12:40
Context12:40 For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish 5 for three days and three nights, 6 so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
Matthew 2:14
Context2:14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during 7 the night, and went to Egypt.
Matthew 28:13
Context28:13 telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole his body 8 while we were asleep.’
Matthew 26:34
Context26:34 Jesus said to him, “I tell you the truth, 9 on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
Matthew 26:31
Context26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 10
[4:2] 1 tn Grk “and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.”
[14:25] 2 tn Grk “In the fourth watch of the night,” that is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
[14:25] 3 tn Or “on the lake.”
[25:6] 3 tc ‡ Most witnesses have αὐτοῦ (autou, “[with] him”) after ἀπάντησιν (apanthsin, “meeting”), a reading which makes explicit what is already implied in the shorter text (as found in א B 700). The translation likewise adds “him” for clarity’s sake even though the word is not considered part of the original text. NA27 has αὐτοῦ in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.
[12:40] 4 tn Grk “large sea creature.”
[12:40] 5 sn A quotation from Jonah 1:17.
[2:14] 5 tn The feminine singular genitive noun νυκτός (nuktos, “night”) indicates the time during which the action of the main verb takes place (ExSyn 124).
