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Humingi ng Himala ang mga Pariseo at Saduceo(A)

16 May mga Pariseo at Saduceo na lumapit kay Jesus para subukin siya. Hiniling nilang magpakita siya ng himala mula sa Dios[a] bilang patunay na sugo siya ng Dios. Pero sinabi ni Jesus sa kanila, “Kapag palubog na ang araw at mapula ang langit, sinasabi ninyo, ‘Magiging maayos ang panahon bukas.’ At kapag umaga at makulimlim ang langit, sinasabi ninyo, ‘Uulan ngayon.’ Alam ninyo ang kahulugan ng mga palatandaang nakikita ninyo sa langit, pero bakit hindi ninyo alam ang kahulugan ng mga nangyayari ngayon? Kayong henerasyon ng masasama at hindi tapat sa Dios! Humihingi kayo ng himala, pero walang ipapakita sa inyo maliban sa himalang katulad ng nangyari kay Jonas.” Pagkatapos, umalis si Jesus.

Ang Babala ni Jesus tungkol sa Turo ng mga Pariseo at mga Saduceo(B)

Tumawid ng lawa si Jesus at ang mga tagasunod niya, pero nakalimutan ng mga tagasunod na magbaon ng pagkain. Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanila, “Mag-ingat kayo sa pampaalsa[b] ng mga Pariseo at mga Saduceo.” Nag-usap-usap ang mga tagasunod ni Jesus. Akala nila, kaya niya sinabi iyon ay dahil wala silang dalang tinapay. Pero alam ni Jesus ang pinag-uusapan nila, kaya sinabi niya, “Bakit ninyo pinag-uusapan ang hindi ninyo pagdadala ng tinapay? Kay liit ng pananampalataya ninyo! Hindi pa ba kayo nakakaunawa? Nakalimutan na ba ninyo ang ginawa ko sa limang tinapay para mapakain ang 5,000 tao? Hindi ba ninyo naalala kung ilang basket ang napuno ninyo ng mga natirang pagkain? 10 Nakalimutan na rin ba ninyo ang ginawa ko sa pitong tinapay para mapakain ang 4,000 tao, at kung ilang basket ang napuno ninyo ng mga natirang pagkain? 11 Hindi ba ninyo naiintindihan na hindi tinapay ang tinutukoy ko nang sabihin kong, ‘Mag-ingat kayo sa pampaalsa ng mga Pariseo at Saduceo?’ ” 12 At saka lang nila naintindihan na hindi pala sila pinag-iingat sa pampaalsa kundi sa mga aral ng mga Pariseo at Saduceo.

Ang Pahayag ni Pedro Tungkol kay Jesus(C)

13 Nang makarating si Jesus sa lupain ng Cesarea Filipos, tinanong niya ang kanyang mga tagasunod, “Ano ang sinasabi ng mga tao tungkol sa akin na Anak ng Tao?” 14 Sumagot sila, “May mga nagsasabing kayo po si Juan na tagapagbautismo. May nagsasabi ring kayo si Elias. At ang iba namaʼy nagsasabing kayo si Jeremias o isa sa mga propeta.” 15 Tinanong sila ni Jesus, “Pero sa inyo, sino ako?” 16 Sumagot si Simon Pedro, “Kayo po ang Cristo, ang Anak ng Dios na buhay.” 17 Sinabi ni Jesus sa kanya, “Pinagpala ka ng Dios, Simon na anak ni Jonas. Sapagkat hindi tao ang nagpahayag sa iyo ng bagay na ito kundi ang aking Amang nasa langit. 18 At ngayon sinasabi ko sa iyo na ikaw si Pedro,[c] at sa batong ito, itatayo ko ang aking iglesya,[d] at hindi ito malulupig kahit ng kapangyarihan ng kamatayan.[e] 19 Ibibigay ko sa iyo ang kapangyarihan[f] sa kaharian ng Dios.[g] Anuman ang ipagbawal mo sa lupa ay ipagbabawal din sa langit, at anuman ang ipahintulot mo sa lupa ay ipapahintulot din sa langit.” 20 Pagkatapos nito, sinabihan ni Jesus ang mga tagasunod niya na huwag nilang ipaalam kahit kanino na siya ang Cristo.

Ang Unang Pagpapahayag ni Jesus tungkol sa Kanyang Kamatayan(D)

21 Mula noon, ipinaalam na ni Jesus sa mga tagasunod niya na dapat siyang pumunta sa Jerusalem at dumanas ng maraming paghihirap sa kamay ng mga pinuno ng mga Judio, ng mga namamahalang pari at ng mga tagapagturo ng Kautusan. At siyaʼy ipapapatay nila, pero sa ikatlong araw ay muli siyang mabubuhay. 22 Nang marinig ito ni Pedro, dinala niya si Jesus sa isang tabi at sinabihan, “Panginoon, huwag po sanang ipahintulot ng Dios. Hindi ito dapat mangyari sa inyo.” 23 Hinarap ni Jesus si Pedro at sinabi, “Lumayo ka sa akin, Satanas! Pinipigilan mo akong gawin ang kalooban ng Dios, dahil hindi ayon sa kalooban ng Dios ang iniisip mo kundi ayon sa kalooban ng tao!”

24 Pagkatapos, sinabi ni Jesus sa mga tagasunod niya, “Ang sinumang gustong sumunod sa akin ay hindi dapat inuuna ang sarili. At dapat handa siyang humarap kahit sa kamatayan[h] alang-alang sa pagsunod niya sa akin. 25 Sapagkat ang taong naghahangad magligtas ng kanyang buhay ay mawawalan nito. Ngunit ang taong nagnanais mag-alay ng kanyang buhay alang-alang sa akin ay magkakaroon ng buhay na walang hanggan. 26 Ano ba ang mapapala ng tao kung mapasakanya man ang lahat ng bagay sa mundo, pero mapapahamak naman ang kanyang buhay? May maibabayad ba siya para mabawi niya ang kanyang buhay? 27 Sapagkat ako na Anak ng Tao ay darating kasama ang mga anghel, at taglay ang kapangyarihan ng Ama. Sa araw na iyon, gagantimpalaan ko ang bawat isa ayon sa kanyang mga gawa. 28 Sinasabi ko sa inyo ang totoo, may ilan sa inyo rito na hindi mamamatay hanggaʼt hindi nila nakikita ang Anak ng Tao na dumarating bilang Hari.”

Footnotes

  1. 16:1 mula sa Dios: sa literal, mula sa langit.
  2. 16:6 pampaalsa: sa Ingles, “yeast.”
  3. 16:18 Pedro: Ang ibig sabihin, bato.
  4. 16:18 iglesya: Tingnan sa Talaan ng mga Salita sa likod.
  5. 16:18 kapangyarihan ng kamatayan: sa literal, pintuan ng Hades.
  6. 16:19 kapangyarihan: sa literal, mga susi.
  7. 16:19 Dios: sa literal, langit.
  8. 16:24 dapat handa siyang humarap kahit sa kamatayan: sa literal, dapat pasanin niya ang kanyang krus.

The Demand for a Sign

16 Now when the Pharisees[a] and Sadducees[b] came to test Jesus,[c] they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.[d] He[e] said, “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather, because the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.’[f] You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky,[g] but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then[h] he left them and went away.

The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees

When the disciples went to the other side, they forgot to take bread. “Watch out,” Jesus said to them, “beware of the yeast of the Pharisees[i] and Sadducees.”[j] So[k] they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, “It is because we brought no bread.” When Jesus learned of this,[l] he said, “You who have such little faith! Why are you arguing[m] among yourselves about having no bread? Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000, and how many baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you took up? 11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!” 12 Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Peter’s Confession

13 When[n] Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,[o] “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 They answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah,[p] and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered,[q] “You are the Christ,[r] the Son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him,[s] “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood[t] did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven! 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[u] will not overpower it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” 20 Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.[v]

First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

21 From that time on[w] Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer[x] many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law,[y] and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 22 So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him:[z] “God forbid,[aa] Lord! This must not happen to you!” 23 But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”[ab] 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to become my follower,[ac] he must deny[ad] himself, take up his cross,[ae] and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life[af] will lose it,[ag] but whoever loses his life because of me[ah] will find it. 26 For what does it benefit a person[ai] if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life? 27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.[aj] 28 I tell you the truth,[ak] there are some standing here who will not[al] experience[am] death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”[an]

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 16:1 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
  2. Matthew 16:1 sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.
  3. Matthew 16:1 tn The object of the participle πειράζοντες (peirazontes) is not given in the Greek text but has been supplied here for clarity.
  4. Matthew 16:1 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.
  5. Matthew 16:2 tn Grk “But answering, he said to them.” The construction has been simplified in the translation and δέ (de) has not been translated.
  6. Matthew 16:3 tn Or “red and gloomy” (L&N 14.56).
  7. Matthew 16:3 tn Grk “The face of the sky you know how to discern.”
  8. Matthew 16:4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  9. Matthew 16:6 sn See the note on Pharisees in 3:7.
  10. Matthew 16:6 sn See the note on Sadducees in 3:7.
  11. Matthew 16:7 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Jesus’ saying about the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  12. Matthew 16:8 tn Or “becoming aware of it.”
  13. Matthew 16:8 tn Or “discussing.”
  14. Matthew 16:13 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  15. Matthew 16:13 tn Grk “he asked his disciples, saying.” The participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant and has been left untranslated.
  16. Matthew 16:14 sn The appearance of Elijah would mean that the end time had come. According to 2 Kgs 2:11, Elijah was still alive. In Mal 4:5 it is said that Elijah would be the precursor of Messiah.
  17. Matthew 16:16 tn Grk “And answering, Simon Peter said.”
  18. Matthew 16:16 tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”sn See the note on Christ in 1:16.
  19. Matthew 16:17 tn Grk “answering, Jesus said to him.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokritheis) is redundant, but the syntax of this phrase has been modified for clarity.
  20. Matthew 16:17 tn The expression “flesh and blood” could refer to “any human being” (so TEV, NLT; cf. NIV “man”), but it could also refer to Peter himself (i.e., his own intuition; cf. CEV “You didn’t discover this on your own”). Because of the ambiguity of the referent, the phrase “flesh and blood” has been retained in the translation.
  21. Matthew 16:18 tn Or “and the power of death” (taking the reference to the gates of Hades as a metonymy).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.
  22. Matthew 16:20 tc Most mss (א2 C W Γ 579 1241 M lat bo) have “Jesus, the Christ” (᾿Ιησοῦς ὁ Χριστός, Iēsous ho Christos) here, while D has “Christ Jesus” (ὁ Χριστὸς ᾿Ιησοῦς). On the one hand, this is a much harder reading than the mere Χριστός, because the name Jesus was already well known for the disciples’ master—both to them and to others. Whether he was the Messiah is the real focus of the passage. But the addition of “Jesus” is surely too hard a reading: There are no other texts in which the Lord tells his disciples not to disclose his personal name. Further, it is plainly a motivated reading in that scribes had the proclivity to add ᾿Ιησοῦς to Χριστός or to κύριος (kurios, “Lord”), regardless of whether such was appropriate to the context. In this instance it clearly is not, and it only reveals that scribes sometimes, if not often, did not think about the larger interpretive consequences of their alterations to the text. Further, the shorter reading is well supported by א* B L Δ Θ ƒ1, 13 565 700 1424 it sa.tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”sn See the note on Christ in 1:16.
  23. Matthew 16:21 tn Grk “From then.”
  24. Matthew 16:21 sn The necessity that the Son of Man suffer is the particular point that needed emphasis since for many 1st century Jews the Messiah was a glorious and powerful figure, not a suffering one.
  25. Matthew 16:21 tn Or “and scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
  26. Matthew 16:22 tn Grk “began to rebuke him, saying.” The participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
  27. Matthew 16:22 tn Grk “Merciful to you.” A highly elliptical expression: “May God be merciful to you in sparing you from having to undergo [some experience]” (L&N 88.78). A contemporary English equivalent is “God forbid!”
  28. Matthew 16:23 tn Grk “people.”
  29. Matthew 16:24 tn Grk “to come after me.”
  30. Matthew 16:24 tn This translation better expresses the force of the Greek third person imperative than the traditional “let him deny,” which could be understood as merely permissive.
  31. Matthew 16:24 sn To bear the cross means to accept the rejection of the world for turning to Jesus and following him. Discipleship involves a death that is like a crucifixion; see Gal 6:14.
  32. Matthew 16:25 tn Grk “soul” (throughout vv. 25-26). See the discussion of this Greek term in the note on “life” in Matt 10:39.
  33. Matthew 16:25 sn The Greek word translated life can refer to both earthly, physical life and inner, transcendent life (one’s “soul”). In the context, if a person is not willing to suffer the world’s rejection and persecution in order to follow Jesus but instead seeks to retain his physical life, then that person will lose both physical life and inner, transcendent life (at the judgment). On the other hand, the one who willingly gives up earthly, physical life to follow Jesus (“loses his life because of me”) will ultimately find one’s “soul” (note that the parallel in John’s Gospel speaks of “guarding one’s ‘soul’ for eternal life” (John 12:25).
  34. Matthew 16:25 tn Or “for my sake.” The traditional rendering “for my sake” can be understood in the sense of “for my benefit,” but the Greek term ἕνεκα (heneka) indicates the cause or reason for something (BDAG 334 s.v. 1).
  35. Matthew 16:26 tn Grk “a man,” but ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used in a generic sense here to refer to both men and women.
  36. Matthew 16:27 sn An allusion to Pss 28:4; 62:12; cf. Prov 24:12.
  37. Matthew 16:28 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amēn), I say to you.”
  38. Matthew 16:28 tn The Greek negative here (οὐ μή, ou mē) is the strongest possible.
  39. Matthew 16:28 tn Grk “will not taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).
  40. Matthew 16:28 sn Several suggestions have been made as to the referent for the phrase the Son of Man coming in his kingdom: (1) the transfiguration itself, which immediately follows in the narrative; (2) Jesus’ resurrection and ascension; (3) the coming of the Spirit; (4) Christ’s role in the Church; (5) the destruction of Jerusalem; (6) Jesus’ second coming and the establishment of the kingdom. The reference to six days later in 17:1 seems to indicate that Matthew had the transfiguration in mind insofar as it was a substantial prefiguring of the consummation of the kingdom (although this interpretation is not without its problems). As such, the transfiguration would be a tremendous confirmation to the disciples that even though Jesus had just finished speaking of his death (in vv. 21-23), he was nonetheless the promised Messiah and things were proceeding according to God’s plan.