Matius 12:29

12:29 How ¹  else can someone enter a strong man’s ²  house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house. ³ 

Matius 24:29

The Arrival of the Son of Man

24:29 “Immediately ⁴  after the suffering ⁵  of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. ⁶ 

Matius 11:12

11:12 From ⁷  the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it. ⁸ 

Matius 27:50

27:50 Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.

Matius 20:31

20:31 The ⁹  crowd scolded ¹⁰  them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Lord, have mercy on us, ¹¹  Son of David!”

Matius 26:41

26:41 Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matius 7:24-26

Hearing and Doing

7:24 “Everyone ¹²  who hears these words of mine and does them is like ¹³  a wise man ¹⁴  who built his house on rock. 7:25 The rain fell, the flood ¹⁵  came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock. 7:26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matius 16:18

16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades ¹⁶  will not overpower it.

Matius 28:2

28:2 Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord ¹⁷  descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

[12:29]  ¹ tn Grk “Or how can.”

[12:29]  ² sn The strong man here pictures Satan.

[12:29]  ³ sn Some see the imagery here as similar to Eph 4:7-10, although no opponents are explicitly named in that passage. Jesus has the victory over Satan. Jesus’ acts of healing mean that the war is being won and the kingdom is coming.

[24:29]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[24:29]  ⁵ tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”

[24:29]  ⁶ sn An allusion to Isa 13:10, 34:4 (LXX); Joel 2:10. The heavens were seen as the abode of heavenly forces, so their shaking indicates distress in the spiritual realm. Although some take the powers as a reference to bodies in the heavens (like stars and planets, “the heavenly bodies,” NIV) this is not as likely.

[11:12]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[11:12]  ⁸ tn Or “the kingdom of heaven is forcibly entered and violent people take hold of it.” For a somewhat different interpretation of this passage, see the note on the phrase “urged to enter in” in Luke 16:16.

[20:31]  ⁹ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[20:31]  ¹⁰ tn Or “rebuked.” The crowd’s view was that surely Jesus would not be bothered with someone as unimportant as a blind beggar.

[20:31]  ¹¹ tc ‡ The majority of mss (C W ˹ 33 Ï and several versional witnesses) read κύριε (kurie, “Lord”) after ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς (elehson Jhma", “have mercy on us”). But since this is the order of words in v. 30 (though that wording is also disputed), and since the κύριε-first reading enjoys widespread and early support (א B D L Z Θ 085 0281 ˹³ 892 pc lat), the latter was considered original. However, the decision was by no means easy. NA²⁷ has κύριε after ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς here; a majority of that committee felt that since the placement of κύριε in last place was the nonliturgical order it “would have been likely to be altered in transcription to the more familiar sequence” (TCGNT 44).

[7:24]  ¹² tn Grk “Therefore everyone.” Here οὖν (oun) has not been translated.

[7:24]  ¹³ tn Grk “will be like.” The same phrase occurs in v. 26.

[7:24]  ¹⁴ tn Here and in v. 26 the Greek text reads ἀνήρ (anhr), while the parallel account in Luke 6:47-49 uses ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") in vv. 48 and 49.

[7:25]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “the rivers.”

[16:18]  ¹⁶ tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).

[16:18]  sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Matt 11:23; Luke 16:23; Rev 20:13-14). Some translations render this by its modern equivalent, “hell”; others see it as a reference to the power of death.

[28:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the angel of the Lord.” See the note on the word “Lord” in 1:20.