Matius 1:17

1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, ¹  fourteen generations.

Matius 11:16

11:16 “To ²  what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, ³ 

Matius 12:39

12:39 But he answered them, ⁴  “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Matius 12:41

12:41 The people ⁵  of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them ⁶  – and now, ⁷  something greater than Jonah is here!

Matius 12:45

12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so ⁸  the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”

Matius 23:36

23:36 I tell you the truth, ⁹  this generation will be held responsible for all these things! ¹⁰ 

[1:17]  ¹ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[1:17]  sn See the note on Christ in 1:16.

[11:16]  ² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[11:16]  ³ tn Grk “who call out to one another, saying.” The participle λέγουσιν (legousin) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[12:39]  ⁴ tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” This construction is somewhat redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation.

[12:41]  ⁵ tn Grk “men”; the word here (ἀνήρ, anhr) usually indicates males or husbands, but occasionally is used in a generic sense of people in general, as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 1.a, 2).

[12:41]  ⁶ tn Grk “at the preaching of Jonah.”

[12:41]  ⁷ tn Grk “behold.”

[12:45]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the concluding point of the story.

[23:36]  ⁹ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[23:36]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “all these things will come on this generation.”