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King James Version

Matthew 11:3

And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Doubting;   Jesus, the Christ;   John;   Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Doubters;   Faith-Unbelief;   Faithlessness;   Infidelity;   Jesus Christ;   Messiah, Jesus the;   Questions;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - John;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Kingdom of god;   Matthew, gospel of;   Messiah;   Miracles;   Prophecy, prophet;   Signs;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christ, Christology;   Ethics;   Jesus Christ;   Nahum, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Jesus Christ;   Miracles;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Future Hope;   John;   Lame, Lameness;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - John the Baptist;   Kingdom of God;   Messiah;   Mss;   Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   Authority of Christ;   Chaff;   Consciousness;   Dates (2);   Doctrines;   Incarnation (2);   John the Baptist;   Logia;   Long-Suffering ;   Names and Titles of Christ;   Promise (2);   Silence;   Winter ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 21 Another Different;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Je'sus Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Messiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   John the Baptist;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
They asked him, "Are you the one we have been expecting, or should we wait for someone else?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and sayde vnto him. Arte thou he that shall come: or shall we loke for another.
International Standard Version
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]
New American Standard Bible
and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or are we to look for someone else?"
New Century Version
They asked him, "Are you the One who is to come, or should we wait for someone else?"
Update Bible Version
and said to him, Are you he that comes, or do we look for another?
Webster's Bible Translation
And said to him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
Amplified Bible
and asked Him, "Are You the Expected One (the Messiah), or should we look for someone else [who will be the promised One]?"
English Standard Version
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
World English Bible
and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And said to him, Art thou he that should come, or look we for another?
Weymouth's New Testament
"Are you the Coming One, or is it a different person that we are to expect?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide to him, `Art thou he that schal come, or we abiden another?
English Revised Version
and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
Berean Standard Bible
to ask Him, "Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"
Contemporary English Version
to ask Jesus, "Are you the one we should be looking for? Or must we wait for someone else?"
American Standard Version
and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?
Bible in Basic English
To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?
Complete Jewish Bible
asking, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for someone else?"
Darby Translation
and said to him, Art *thou* the coming [one]? or are we to wait for another?
Etheridge Translation
and said to him, Art thou He that cometh, or another are we to expect?
Murdock Translation
and said to him: Art thou he that cometh, or are we to expect another?
King James Version (1611)
And said vnto him, Art thou hee that should come? Or doe wee looke for another?
New Living Translation
"Are you the Messiah we've been expecting, or should we keep looking for someone else?"
New Life Bible
They asked, "Are You the One Who was to come, or should we look for another?"
New Revised Standard
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Art thou he that shoulde come, or shal we looke for another?
George Lamsa Translation
And said to him, Are you the one who is to come, or are we to expect another?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
said unto him, Art, thou, the coming one? or, a different one, are we to expect?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?
Revised Standard Version
and said to him, "Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?"
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Art thou he that shoulde come? or do we loke for another?
Good News Translation
"Tell us," they asked Jesus, "are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?"
Christian Standard Bible®
and asked him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”
Hebrew Names Version
and said to him, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
Lexham English Bible
and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
Literal Translation
John said to Him, Are You the One coming, or are we to look for another?
Young's Literal Translation
said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto him: Art thou he yt shal come, or shal we loke for another?
Mace New Testament (1729)
art thou he that was to come, or must we expect another?
New English Translation
"Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"
New King James Version
and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
he sent some of his boys out to ask Jesus, "Are you the real deal or should we be waitin' on someone else?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and said to Him, "Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?"
Legacy Standard Bible
and said to Him, "Are You the One who is to come, or shall we look for someone else?"

Contextual Overview

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. 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 said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

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

Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:6
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:18
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Exodus 2:3
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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", כי בא יבא, 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 “he that was to come.” Luke adds here Luke 7:21, that at the time when the messengers came to him, Jesus “cured many of their infirmities, and plagues, and of evil spirits.” 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 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 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 δυο, two, several excellent MSS., with both the Syriac, Armenian, Gothic, and one copy of the Itala, have δια, by; he sent by his disciples.


 
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