Matthew 11:1

JESUS PREACHES THE GOSPEL, PROBABLY UNACCOMPANIED BY THE TWELVE

1. καὶ ἐγένετο. A translation of a Hebrew transitional formula; the verb which follows (1) is sometimes connected with καί, as ch. Matthew 9:10, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῦ� … καὶ ἰδού, (2) sometimes, as here, has no connecting particle; (3) sometimes the infinitive is used, as καὶ ἐγένετο παραπορεύεσθαι αὐτόν, Mark 2:23. This formula varied by ἐγένετο δὲ is especially frequent in St Luke, and does not occur in St John. The particular phrase καὶ ἐγένετο, ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν, is confined to St Matthew; see ch. Matthew 7:28 (συνετ.), Matthew 13:53; Matthew 19:1; Matthew 26:1. (Winer, p. 406 c, and p. 760 e, and note 2.)

ἐκεῖθεν. The place where Jesus delivered the charge to the Apostles is not named.