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THE MESSAGE
Matthew 11:3
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and asked him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”
And said vnto him, Art thou hee that should come? Or doe wee looke for another?
And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or are we to look for someone else?"
They asked him, "Are you the One who is to come, or should we wait for someone else?"
and asked Him, "Are You the Expected One (the Messiah), or should we look for someone else [who will be the promised One]?"
Art thou he that shoulde come, or shal we looke for another?
and said to Him, "Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?"
and said to Him, "Are You the One who is to come, or shall we look for someone else?"
to ask Him, "Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"
to ask Jesus, "Are you the one we should be looking for? Or must we wait for someone else?"
asking, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for someone else?"
and said to him, Art *thou* the coming [one]? or are we to wait for another?
They asked him, "Are you the one we have been expecting, or should we wait for someone else?"
And said to him, Are you the one who is to come, or are we to expect another?
"Tell us," they asked Jesus, "are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?"
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
John said to Him, Are You the One coming, or are we to look for another?
and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
and asked him, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?"Genesis 49:10; Numbers 24:17; Daniel 9:24; John 6:14;">[xr]
and said to him, Art thou He that cometh, or another are we to expect?
and said to him: Art thou he that cometh, or are we to expect another?
Art thou he that shoulde come? or do we loke for another?
and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
And said to him, Art thou he that should come, or look we for another?
"Are you the Coming One, or is it a different person that we are to expect?"
and seide to him, `Art thou he that schal come, or we abiden another?
and said to him, Are you he that comes, or do we look for another?
And said to him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
"Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"
"Are you the Messiah we've been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?"
They asked, "Are You the One Who was to come, or should we look for another?"
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?"
said unto him, Art, thou, the coming one? or, a different one, are we to expect?
Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?
and said to him, "Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
and sayde vnto him. Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we loke for another.
said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'
and sayde vnto him: Art thou he yt shal come, or shal we loke for another?
art thou he that was to come, or must we expect another?
he sent some of his boys out to ask Jesus, "Are you the real deal or should we be waitin' on someone else?"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Art: Matthew 2:2-6, Genesis 3:15, Genesis 12:3, Genesis 49:10, Numbers 24:17, Deuteronomy 18:15-18, Psalms 2:6-12, Psalms 110:1-5, Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 34:24, Daniel 9:24-26, Hosea 3:5, Joel 2:28-32, Amos 9:11, Amos 9:12, Obadiah 1:21, Micah 5:2, Zephaniah 3:14-17, Haggai 2:7, Zechariah 9:9, Malachi 3:1, Malachi 4:2, John 4:21, John 7:31, John 7:41, John 7:42
he that: Matthew 21:5, Matthew 21:9, Mark 11:9, Luke 19:38, John 16:14, John 12:13, Hebrews 10:37
Reciprocal: Isaiah 35:5 - the eyes Mark 14:61 - Art Luke 22:67 - Art John 6:14 - This John 9:36 - Who John 10:24 - How John 11:27 - which John 13:19 - that I Acts 19:4 - John Hebrews 9:11 - Christ Hebrews 10:5 - when
Cross-References
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."
God took one look and said, "One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they'll come up with next—they'll stop at nothing! Come, we'll go down and garble their speech so they won't understand each other." Then God scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That's how it came to be called Babel, because there God turned their language into "babble." From there God scattered them all over the world.
When Peleg was thirty years old, he had Reu. After he had Reu, he lived 209 more years and had other sons and daughters.
The Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into the tar pits, but the rest escaped into the mountains. The four kings captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, all their food and equipment, and went on their way. They captured Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom at the time, taking everything he owned with them.
David emptied the city of its people and put them to slave labor using saws, picks, and axes, and making bricks. He did this to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and the whole army returned to Jerusalem.
I said to myself, "Let's go for it—experiment with pleasure, have a good time!" But there was nothing to it, nothing but smoke. What do I think of the fun-filled life? Insane! Inane! My verdict on the pursuit of happiness? Who needs it? With the help of a bottle of wine and all the wisdom I could muster, I tried my level best to penetrate the absurdity of life. I wanted to get a handle on anything useful we mortals might do during the years we spend on this earth.
"Well now, let me tell you what I'll do to my vineyard: I'll tear down its fence and let it go to ruin. I'll knock down the gate and let it be trampled. I'll turn it into a patch of weeds, untended, uncared for— thistles and thorns will take over. I'll give orders to the clouds: ‘Don't rain on that vineyard, ever!'"
Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks. Sorry. Too late. Enemy fire will burn you up. Swords will cut you to pieces. You'll be chewed up as if by locusts. Yes, as if by locusts—a fitting fate, for you yourselves are a locust plague. You've multiplied shops and shopkeepers— more buyers and sellers than stars in the sky! A plague of locusts, cleaning out the neighborhood and then flying off. Your bureaucrats are locusts, your brokers and bankers are locusts. Early on, they're all at your service, full of smiles and promises, But later when you return with questions or complaints, you'll find they've flown off and are nowhere to be found. King of Assyria! Your shepherd-leaders, in charge of caring for your people, Are busy doing everything else but. They're not doing their job, And your people are scattered and lost. There's no one to look after them. You're past the point of no return. Your wound is fatal. When the story of your fate gets out, the whole world will applaud and cry "Encore!" Your cruel evil has seeped into every nook and cranny of the world. Everyone has felt it and suffered.
And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, "Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we're off to such and such a city for the year. We're going to start a business and make a lot of money." You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. Instead, make it a habit to say, "If the Master wills it and we're still alive, we'll do this or that."
And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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, well known to the Jews; for he had been spoken of frequently in the prophecies of the Old Testament, as the Shiloh, the Redeemer, the Prophet, and King that should come; particularly, by this circumlocution, reference seems to be had to Habakkuk 2:3. "It shall surely come", ×× ×× ×××, which may be rendered, "for he that cometh", or "is to come, shall come". So that the question in plain terms is, whether he was the Messiah? John could not be ignorant of this, who had seen the Spirit of God descending on him at his baptism, heard a voice from heaven, declaring him the Son of God; and had so often pointed him out to others, and had borne frequent testimonies that he was the Lamb of God, and bridegroom of his church: wherefore this question was put, not upon his own account, but his disciples, that they might have from the mouth of Christ a full and satisfactory answer, which would remove all their doubts and scruples, and attach them to Christ, now he was about to die, and leave them, than which nothing was more desirable to him. Though some have thought, that John's faith was somewhat slackened; and through his long imprisonment, he began to doubt whether he was the Messiah or not: and others have been of opinion, as particularly Dr. Lightfoot, that the reason of this message was, neither the ignorance and unbelief of John, or his disciples; but that John, with the rest of the Jews, having a notion of a temporal kingdom, and hearing of the mighty works of Christ, wonders that he himself was not delivered out of prison by him, grows impatient upon it, and asks, if he was the Messiah? And if he was, why did he suffer his forerunner and chief minister to lie in prison?
or do we look for another, to release me, and set up this kingdom?
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 9:1-6; Isaiah 11:1-5; Isaiah 35:4-6; Isaiah 53:1-12; Daniel 9:24-27. See also John 6:14. Compare Deuteronomy 18:18-19. In common language, therefore, he was familiarly described as âhe that was to come.â Luke adds here Luke 7:21, that at the time when the messengers came to him, Jesus âcured many of their infirmities, and plagues, and of evil spirits.â An answer was therefore ready to the inquiries of John.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 11:3. Art thou he that should come — ο εÏÏομενοÏ, he that cometh, seems to have been a proper name of the Messiah; to save or deliver is necessarily implied. Luke 7:19.
There is some difficulty in what is here spoken of John. Some have thought he was utterly ignorant of our Lord's Divine mission, and that he sent merely for his own information; but this is certainly inconsistent with his own declaration, Luke 3:15, c. John 1:15; John 1:26; John 1:33; John 3:28, c. Others suppose he sent the message merely for the instruction of his disciples that, as he saw his end approaching, he wished them to have the fullest conviction that Jesus was the Messiah, that they might attach themselves to him.
A third opinion takes a middle course between the two former, and states that, though John was at first perfectly convinced that Jesus was the Christ, yet, entertaining some hopes that he would erect a secular kingdom in Judea, wished to know whether this was likely to take place speedily. It is very probable that John now began, through the length of his confinement, to entertain doubts, relative to his kingdom, which perplexed and harassed his mind; and he took the most reasonable way to get rid of them at once, viz. by applying to Christ himself.
Two of his disciples — Instead of Î´Ï Î¿, two, several excellent MSS., with both the Syriac, Armenian, Gothic, and one copy of the Itala, have δια, by; he sent by his disciples.
