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. ¹ 

This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? ² 

Matius 22:31-32

22:31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, ³  22:32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? ⁴  He is not the God of the dead but of the living!” ⁵ 

Matius 22:43

22:43 He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying,

Matius 26:54

26:54 How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

Matius 26:56

26:56 But this has happened so that ⁶  the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

[21:42]  ¹ 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]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 118:22-23.

[22:31]  ³ tn Grk “spoken to you by God, saying.” The participle λέγοντος (legontos) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[22:32]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Exod 3:6.

[22:32]  ⁵ sn He is not God of the dead but of the living. Jesus’ point was that if God could identify himself as God of the three old patriarchs, then they must still be alive when God spoke to Moses; and so they must be raised.

[26:56]  ⁶ tn Grk “But so that”; the verb “has happened” is implied.