Matthew 4:4

4:4 But he answered, ¹  “It is written, ‘Man ²  does not live ³  by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” ⁴ 

Matthew 18:13

18:13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, ⁵  he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

Matthew 27:27

27:27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence ⁶  and gathered the whole cohort ⁷  around him.

Matthew 27:42

27:42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down ⁸  now from the cross, we will believe in him!

[4:4]  ¹ tn Grk “answering, he said.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the phrase has been changed for clarity.

[4:4]  ² tn Or “a person.” Greek ὁ ἄνθρωπος (Jo anqrwpo") is used generically for humanity. The translation “man” is used because the emphasis in Jesus’ response seems to be on his dependence on God as a man.

[4:4]  ³ tn Grk “will not live.” The verb in Greek is a future tense, but it is unclear whether it is meant to be taken as a command (also known as an imperatival future) or as a statement of reality (predictive future).

[4:4]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Deut 8:3.

[18:13]  ⁵ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[27:27]  ⁹ tn Or “into their headquarters”; Grk “into the praetorium.”

[27:27]  ¹⁰ sn A Roman cohort was a tenth of a legion, about 500-600 soldiers.

[27:42]  ¹³ tn Here the aorist imperative καταβάτω (katabatw) has been translated as a conditional imperative. This fits the pattern of other conditional imperatives (imperative + καί + future indicative) outlined by ExSyn 489.