Matius 12:50

12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is ¹  my brother and sister and mother.”

Matius 23:18

23:18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. ²  But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’

Matius 24:15

The Abomination of Desolation

24:15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation ³  – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

[12:50]  ¹ tn The pleonastic pronoun αὐτός (autos, “he”) which precedes this verb has not been translated.

[23:18]  ² tn Grk “Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing.”

[24:15]  ³ sn The reference to the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Dan 9:27. Though some have seen the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative of his) in 167 b.c., the words of Jesus seem to indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but that there was (from Jesus’ perspective) still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in a.d. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age (cf. Mark 13:14, 19, 24; Rev 3:10).