Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Matthew 11:3-19
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
No JFB commentary on these verses.
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
No JFB commentary on these verses.
Verse Matthew 11:3. _ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME_] ο ερχομενος, _he that_ _cometh_, seems to have been a proper name of the _Messiah; to save_ or _deliver_ is necessarily implied. Luke 7:19. There...
ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME? - That is, Art thou the Messiah, or the Christ? The Jews expected a Saviour. His coming had been long foretold, Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 9:1; Isaiah 11:1;...
8. THE FORERUNNER IN PRISON. THE KINGDOM PREACHING REJECTED. CHAPTER 11 1. John Imprisoned Sends his Disciples. (Matthew 11:1 .) 2. The King's Testimony Concerning John. (Matthew 11:7 .) 3. The King...
JOHN THE BAPTIST (Luke 7:18). In place of Mk.'s narrative of John, deferred to ch. 14, Mt. gives material from Q. MATTHEW 11:2. JOHN'S PERPLEXITY. It is a question whether doubt was supervening upon...
ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME? Here is no doubt. reference to Malachi 3:1, where it is said: "Jehovah whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple." The _slowness_ of our Lord to develop the glory of...
THE SIX ACCENTS IN THE VOICE OF JESUS (Matthew 11:1-30) Matthew 11:1-30 is a chapter in which Jesus is speaking all the time; and, as he speaks to different people and about different things, we hear...
And when Jesus had completed his instructions to the twelve disciples, he left there to go on teaching and to go on making his proclamation in their towns. When John had heard in prison about the thin...
HE THAT SHOULD COME. He Who cometh, or the corning One: i.e. He Who was expected to come. Compare Matthew 3:11; Matthew 21:9; Matthew 23:39; John 3:31.
_he that should come_ Literally, HE THAT COMETH. One of the designations of the Messiah; in every age the prophet said "He cometh." It is often disputed whether John sent this message (1) from a sens...
CONCERNING JOHN THE BAPTIST His message to Jesus 2–6. His position as a Prophet 7–14. His relation to Jesus and to his contemporaries 15–19. St Luke 7:18-35...
Ὁ ἘΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ. Hebr. _Habba_, one of the designations of the Messiah; in every age the prophet said ‘He cometh.’ See note ch. Matthew 1:18. ἝΤΕΡΟΝ, another—a different Messiah, whose ‘works’ shall not...
Ver 2. Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 3. And said unto him, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" 4. Jesus answered and s...
_A MAN CALLED JOHN MATTHEW 11:1-6:_ John the Baptist was a great servant of God. But, even great servants can doubt and need reassurance. He asked, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?...
ΣΥ (G4771) вы (эмфатическое), ΕΊ (G1510) _praes. ind. act. 2 pers. sing. от_ ΕΙΜΊ быть, ΈΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, идти, используется с арт. как сущ.: "Тот, К...
ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME— It seems that by their speaking of the Messiah in the phrase _he that cometh,_ or _he that is coming,_ ('Ο ερχομενος,) the pious Jews in the most lively manner expressed...
SECTION 24 JESUS RECEIVES A QUESTION FROM JOHN AND PREACHES A SERMON ON JOHN (Parallel: Luke 7:18-35) TEXT: 11:2-19 2. Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his di...
23 The mood of the verb is most important here. The Lord is not telling what would but what may occur. His apostles were frail mortals, easily discouraged, so He does no more than hint at a possible f...
11:3 wait (a-14) Probably, 'have we to do it,' not simply, 'are we doing it?'...
DEPUTATION FROM THE BAPTIST (Luke 7:18). John, knowing that his end was near, and that many of his disciples were jealous of the success of the new teacher, and disbelieved His claims, sent certain of...
THE DISCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST 1. Tours of Jesus after dismissing His apostles. The apostles started on their mission about five weeks before the second Passover of the ministry (28 a.d.) and were away...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 JOHN THE *BAPTIST ASKED A QUESTION 11:1-6 V1 Jesus finished giving instructions to his 12 *disciples. Then he went on from there...
ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME? — There are no adequate grounds for assuming, as some have done, that the Baptist sent the disciples only to remove heir doubts. The question comes from him; the answer i...
Chapter 10 The Shadow of the Cross - Matthew 11:1; Matthew 12:1 I-DISCOURAGEMENTS. Matthew 11:1 HITHERTO almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in our Evangelist's record of the Saviour'...
_Message from the Baptist_ (Luke 7:18-23)....
εἶπεν αὐτῷ, said to Jesus, by them, of course. Σὺ εἶ : the question a grave one and emphatically expressed: _Thou_, art Thou ὁ ἐρχόμενος ? Art Thou He whom I spoke of as the One coming after me when I...
HOW DOUBTS MAY BE SOLVED Matthew 11:1 The Baptist was languishing in a gloomy dungeon in the castle of Machaerus, on the farther shores of the Dead Sea-like a wild creature of the desert, suddenly en...
This picture of John is very full of pathos-from the high triumph of inspired preaching to the solitude and loneliness of a prison. John made as direct application to Jesus as his circumstances permit...
Art thou he that is to come?\1] (Greek, who cometh?) i.e. the Messias. John the Baptist had already, on several occasions, declared that Jesus was the Messias. (John i). He could not then doubt of it...
DID JOHN THE BAPTIST OR HIS DISCIPLES DOUBT THE CHRISTHOOD OF JESUS? Matthew 11:2-6; Luke 7:18-23. We answer the above question unhesitatingly in the negative. Neither John nor his disciples had any d...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE BAPTIST’S DOUBT_ ‘Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said unto Him, Art Thou He that should come, or do we look for another?’ Matthew 1...
3._Art thou he who was to come? _John takes for granted what the disciples had known from their childhood; for it was the first lesson of religion, and common among all the Jews, that Christ _was to c...
From that hour we find the definitive judgment of the nation, not indeed as yet openly declared (that is in chapter 12), nor by the cessation of Christ's ministry, which wrought, notwithstanding the o...
AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... By the disciples he sent; this was the message they came with, and this the question they were to ask, and did, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME? A "periphrasis" of the Messiah, we...
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Ver. 3. _Art thou he that should come, &c._] This question the Baptist moved not for his own sake (for he was well assured,...
_Now when John had heard in the prison_ (into which he had been cast by Herod Antipas, a little after he began his public ministry, chap. Matthew 4:12, and Matthew 14:3, &c.) _of the works of Christ_...
HE THAT SHOULD COME; the expected one-the Messiah. Though John had borne express testimony to Jesus, yet both he and his disciples may have been perplexed by erroneous ideas respecting the nature of H...
John's second attempt to lead his disciples to Christ:...
AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU HE THAT SHOULD COME, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER? When John, in his capacity as herald of Christ, had pointed Him out to his disciples the first time, two of those that heard...
Throughout Israel now the Lord carries on an intensive teaching and preaching in their cities. John the Baptist hears of this in the prison, but he is deeply puzzled, for he sends two of his disciples...
2-6 Some think that John sent this inquiry for his own satisfaction. Where there is true faith, yet there may be a mixture of unbelief. The remaining unbelief of good men may sometimes, in an hour of...
Ver. 2,3. The instance of this text alone is enough to convince the observing reader of holy writ, that the evangelists do not set down all things in that order as they were done. We have heard nothin...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I The second, whose meaning is understood from the present times, as being apprehended by perception; as it was said to those who asked the Lord, "If He was...
Matthew 11:3 said G2036 (G5627) Him G846 Are G1488 (G5748) You G4771 One G2064 (G5740) or...
THE MESSIAH HAS COME, AND ONE WHO IS MORE THAN THE MESSIAH, OVERCOMING THE POWERS OF SATAN, AND WHILE REJECTED BY THE MANY HE IS REVEALING HIMSELF AND BEING ACCEPTED BY BABES AND BY THE MEEK AND LOWLY...
JESUS ASSURES JOHN THAT HE, JESUS, IS THE EXPECTED COMING ONE FOR WHOM JOHN WAS PREPARING THE WAY (11:2-6). John, languishing in a dungeon in the Fortress of Machaerus, east of Jordan, (compare Matthe...
‘Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples, and said to him, “Are you he who is coming, or should we look for another?” ' In his prison John heard of ‘the kin...
Matthew 11:3. ART THOU HE THAT COMETH, _i.e.,_ the Messiah, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER. Explanations: (1) John was temporarily in depression and doubt, respecting the slow and unostentatious mode of Ch...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The sending out of the Twelve probably called into open manifestation the opposition of the Pharisees: hence Matthew groups the events indicating this hostility, without regard to c...
HE THAT COMETH (ο ερχομενος). This phrase refers to the Messiah (Mark 11:9; Luke 13:35; Luke 19:38; Hebrews 10:37;...
Matthew 11:1 Jesus and His Doubters. I. The doubt. It is not at all clear who doubted, whether John or his disciples, or indeed whether they all did. The stoutest faith has often failed before now; o...
Matthew 11:3 Doubting. I. There is no sin in doubting. Some doubts are sinful. They are so when born of irrational prejudices or bred of an ill-regulated life. But doubt, of its own nature, cannot be...
Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the...
Matthew 11:1. _And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities._ Whatever he commanded, he himself did. H...
Matthew 11:1. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prison the work...
CONTENTS: Answer to questions sent Jesus by John the Baptist. Judgment predicted as result of rejection of Christ. Rest for individuals who put their trust in Him. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist...
Matthew 11:3. _Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another._ Brevity here is connected with obscurity. John could not doubt, after seeing the glory, and hearing the voice from heaven. The...
ARE YOU THE ONE? John had predicted the One who would come (Matthew 3:1-12). Perhaps he hopes to prod Jesus into acting (to set up a political action.)....
Art Thou He that should come? JOHN’S INQUIRY I. The inquiry made by the baptist. It was suggested by the incredulous state of his disciples. (1) Because if Jesus was Messiah He had not exerted His...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:1 Opposition to the Messiah Increases. There has been occasional resistance to Jesus’ ministry (e.g., Matthew 9:3). It now begins to increase sig
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 11:3 ARE YOU THE ONE WHO IS TO COME? John is probably concerned because his current imprisonment does not match his understanding of the Coming One’s arrival. He thought the Me...
JESUS EASES JOHN'S DOUBT MATTHEW 11:2-19; LUKE 7:19-35; MATTHEW 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,...
CHAPTER 11 _And it came to pass_, &c. _He passed from thence_ : That means, He separated Himself from His Apostles, whom He sent to preach the Gospel by themselves, both that they might prepare the wa...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ The general heading of the chapter may be given as: JESUS JUDGING HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND HIMSELF (_A. B. Bruce, D.D_.). Hitherto almost everything has been hopeful and encouraging in...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 11:1 Matthew only. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD MADE AN END. The same formula recurs in Matthew 7:28; Matthew 13:53;...
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of these commandments, he departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities (Matthew 11:1). So He sent them out in front of them, and then He...
Amos 9:11; Amos 9:12; Daniel 9:24; Deuteronomy 18:15; Ezekiel 34:23
Thou. Emphatic. Art thou "the Coming One?" - a current phrase for the Messiah....
He that is to come — The Messiah....