Yesaya 33:24

33:24 No resident of Zion ¹  will say, “I am ill”;

the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.

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 ²  will not overpower it.

Matius 16:1

The Demand for a Sign

16:1 Now when the Pharisees ³  and Sadducees ⁴  came to test Jesus, ⁵  they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. ⁶ 

Titus 3:15

3:15 Everyone with me greets you. Greet those who love us in the faith. ⁷  Grace be with you all. ⁸ 

[33:24]  ¹ tn The words “of Zion” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[16:18]  ² 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.

[16:1]  ³ sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.

[16:1]  ⁴ sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.

[16:1]  ⁵ tn The object of the participle πειράζοντες (peirazontes) is not given in the Greek text but has been supplied here for clarity.

[16:1]  ⁶ sn What exactly this sign would have been, given what Jesus was already doing, is not clear. But here is where the fence-sitters reside, refusing to commit to him.

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Or “faithfully.”

[3:15]  ⁸ tc Most witnesses (א² D¹ F G H Ψ 0278 Ï lat sy bo) conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”). Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, early and excellent witnesses (א* A C D* 048 33 81 1739 1881 sa) lack the particle, rendering the omission the preferred reading.