Matius 4:6

4:6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you’ ¹  and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ² 

Matius 16:21

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

16:21 From that time on ³  Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem ⁴  and suffer ⁵  many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁶  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Matius 20:23

20:23 He told them, “You will drink my cup, ⁷  but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

[4:6]  ¹ sn A quotation from Ps 91:11. This was not so much an incorrect citation as a use in a wrong context (a misapplication of the passage).

[4:6]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 91:12.

[16:21]  ³ tn Grk “From then.”

[16:21]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:21]  ⁵ sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.

[16:21]  ⁶ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[20:23]  ⁷ tc See the tc note on “about to drink” in v. 22.