Matius 14:27

14:27 But immediately Jesus ¹  spoke to them: ²  “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

Matius 17:6-7

17:6 When the disciples heard this, they were overwhelmed with fear and threw themselves down with their faces to the ground. ³  17:7 But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Do not be afraid.”

Matius 28:4

28:4 The ⁴  guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

[14:27]  ¹ tc Most witnesses have ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (Jo Ihsous, “Jesus”), while a few lack the words (א* D 073 892 pc ff¹ sy^c sa bo). Although such additions are often suspect (due to liturgical influences, piety, or for the sake of clarity), in this case it is likely that ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς dropped out accidentally. Apart from a few albeit important witnesses, as noted above, the rest of the tradition has either ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς αὐτοῖς (Jo Ihsous autois) or αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς (autois Jo Ihsous). In uncial letters, with Jesus’ name as a nomen sacrum, this would have been written as autoisois_ or ois_autois. Thus homoioteleuton could explain the reason for the omission of Jesus’ name.

[14:27]  ² tn Grk “he said to them, saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant and has not been translated.

[17:6]  ³ tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

[28:4]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.