Matthew 11:2

διὰ for δύο of textus receptus on the highest evidence.

2. ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ. At Machærus. See note, ch. Matthew 14:3.

τὰ ἔργα, which were not the works which John might have expected from a Messiah, in whose hand was the separating fan, and at whose coming the axe was laid at the root of the trees.

διὰ τῶν μαθητῶν. See critical note supra, and cp. Luke 7:19.