Matius 2:13

The Escape to Egypt

2:13 After they had gone, an ¹  angel of the Lord ²  appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod ³  is going to look for the child to kill him.”

Matius 16:21

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

16:21 From that time on ⁴  Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem ⁵  and suffer ⁶  many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, ⁷  and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

Matius 21:42

21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures:

‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. ⁸ 

This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? ⁹ 

Matius 27:64

27:64 So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body ¹⁰  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[2:13]  ¹ tn Grk “behold, an angel.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[2:13]  ² tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.

[2:13]  ³ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Herod the Great was particularly ruthless regarding the succession to his throne.

[16:21]  ⁴ tn Grk “From then.”

[16:21]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[16:21]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[21:42]  ⁸ tn Or “capstone,” “keystone.” Although these meanings are lexically possible, the imagery in Eph 2:20-22 and 1 Cor 3:11 indicates that the term κεφαλὴ γωνίας (kefalh gwnia") refers to a cornerstone, not a capstone.

[21:42]  sn The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The use of Ps 118:22-23 and the “stone imagery” as a reference to Christ and his suffering and exaltation is common in the NT (see also Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:6-8; cf. also Eph 2:20). The irony in the use of Ps 118:22-23 here is that in the OT, Israel was the one rejected (or perhaps her king) by the Gentiles, but in the NT it is Jesus who is rejected by Israel.

[21:42]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Ps 118:22-23.

[27:64]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “him.”