Matius 2:16

2:16 When Herod ¹  saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men ²  to kill all the children in Bethlehem ³  and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

Matius 15:32

The Feeding of the Four Thousand

15:32 Then Jesus called the ⁴  disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.”

Matius 21:33

The Parable of the Tenants

21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner ⁵  who planted a vineyard. ⁶  He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then ⁷  he leased it to tenant farmers ⁸  and went on a journey.

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 ⁹  and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

[2:16]  ¹ sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1. Note the fulfillment of the prophecy given by the angel in 2:13.

[2:16]  ² tn Or “soldiers.”

[2:16]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[15:32]  ⁴ tc ‡ Although the external evidence is not great (א W Θ 700 pc), the internal evidence for the omission of αὐτοῦ (autou, “his”) after “disciples” is fairly strong. The pronoun may have been added by way of clarification. NA²⁷, however, includes the pronoun, on the basis of the much stronger external evidence.

[21:33]  ⁵ tn The term here refers to the owner and manager of a household.

[21:33]  ⁶ sn The vineyard is a figure for Israel in the OT (Isa 5:1-7). The nation and its leaders are the tenants, so the vineyard here may well refer to the promise that resides within the nation. The imagery is like that in Rom 11:11-24.

[21:33]  ⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[21:33]  ⁸ sn The leasing of land to tenant farmers was common in this period.

[27:64]  ⁹ tn Grk “him.”